Mendelssohn Bartholdy [Hensel], Fanny.

a hitherto unknown autograph source, a presentation copy for Johanna Zimmermann, notated in dark brown ink on up to two four-stave systems per page, with autograph titles ("die Geisterinsel. duett", "die Sennin. duett"), "Mein Liebchen, wir saßen beisammen" scored for two sopranos and piano, "Die Sennin" for soprano, tenor and piano, signed and inscribed at the end ("für Frau Johanna Zimmermann von Fanny Hensel"), 12 pages, 4to (27.8 x 21.4cm), gilt edges, no place or date [Berlin, 1841, or later?], browned

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Rare. Autograph manuscripts by Fanny Hensel are uncommon at auction. While this fair presentation copy for the singer Johanna Zimmermann (who had sung in a performance of Mendelssohn's opera Die beiden Neffen in 1824) is hitherto unknown, both songs, settings of poems by Heine and Lenau, are also contained in the so-called "Italian"-Album of Fanny, now in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. "Mein Liebchen, wir saßen beisammen" and "Die Sennin" are nos. 362 and 383, respectively, in Renate Hellwig-Unruh, Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Thematisches Verzeichnis der Kompositionen (Adliswil, 2000), pp.304 and 315. Hellwig-Unruh dates "Die Sennin"  to 11 August 1841, following a dated manuscript in Berlin; the time of composition of "Mein Liebchen, wir saßen beisammen' is placed between autumn 1839 and autumn 1841. See lot 58.