Publications
Publications
Monograph
Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Music as Correspondence, Kassel: furore 2007
Editorships
Border crossings. Gender, ethnicity and class as categories of knowledge in musicology (Jahrbuch Musik und Gender 8), together with Britta Sweers, Hildesheim: Olms 2016
Borderline Figures of the Primitive - The Wild, Feminine and Childlike und Kindliche als das Eigene Andere der Musik/Ästhetik (Musiktheorie, Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 30 (2014) Heft 4)
Rock blaster, bridge builder, trailblazer: the composer Ethel Smyth |Rock Blaster, Bridge Builder, Road Paver: The Composer Ethel Smyth (Contributions to the Cultural History of Music 2), together with Rebecca Grotjahn and Melanie Unseld, Munich: Allitera, 2010
The "male" and the "female" Beethoven. Report on the international musicological congress from 29 October to 3 November 2001 at the Berlin University of the Arts (Papers on Beethoven research 18), together with Beatrix Borchard and Rainer Cadenbach, Bonn 2003
Music edition
Fanny Hensel, Songs without names 1820-1844 (2 vols.), Kassel 2003 (together with Cordula Heymann-Wentzel, result of an edition project with students of the Berlin University of the Arts)
Articles in collective publications and journals / book chapters
| In print | "Intertextuality in the Faust Compositions of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", in: The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, ed. by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press |
| 2017 | "Ethel Smyth conducts", in: Komponisten dirigieren, ed. by Christiane Wiesenfeldt, in: Die Tonkunst 11 (2017) issue 3, pp. 307-316 "Geste und Geschlecht in Arnold Schönbergs Musikdrama 'Die Glückliche Hand'", in: Musiktheorie, Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 32 (2017), Heft 1, pp. 59-71 "Chiquinha Gonzaga und der brasilianische Karneval", in: Feiern - Singen - Schunkeln. Carnival performances from the Middle Ages to the present day (Musik - Kultur - Geschichte 9), edited by Maren Butte, Dominic Larue and Anno Mungen, pp. 171-199 |
| 2016 | "'Borderline figures': Gender, Ethnicity and Subject in German Musicology and Aesthetics. 1800 ∙1900", in: 'Grenzgänge'. Gender, Ethnicity and Class as Categories of Knowledge in Musicology (Jahrbuch Musik und Gender 8), ed. by Cornelia Bartsch and Britta Sweers, Hildesheim: Olms, 2016, pp. 19-42 "Werk und Werkverzeichnis im digitalen Medium als 'translatio memoriae' - zur Notwendigkeit von Kritik", in : Musik(vermittlung) im Internet. Perspectives of a different historiography of music (Studies and Materials on Musicology 92), ed. by Beatrix Borchard, Regina Back and Silke Wenzel, Hildesheim: Olms, 2016, pp. 117-149 |
| 2015 | "'Pultvirtuoso' and 'Lady of the Baton' - gendered body images of conducting", in: Dirigentenbilder. Musical Gestures - Embodied Music (Resonances 3), ed. by Arne Stollberg, Jana Weißenfeldand Florian Henri Besthorn, Zurich: Schwabe, 2015, pp. 311-345 "Reflections on music criticism and gender", in: Anklaenge 2015. music and criticism (Anklaenge. Vienna Yearbook for Musicology), ed. by Fritz Trümpi and Simon Obert, Vienna: Mille Tres, 2015, pp. 59-87 "Cyclic Organisation, Narrtive and Self-Construction in Ethel Smyth's 'Lieder und Balladen', op. 3 and 'Lieder' op. 4, in: Women and the 19th Century Lied, ed. by Aisling Kenny and Susan Wollenberg, Ashgate: Fernham, 2015, pp. 177-216 "'Bis endlich das Weib vor Weh vergeht...' - Geschlechtererzählungen des jungen Anton Webern", in: Der junge Webern (Webern-Studien 2b), ed. by Thomas Ahrend and Matthias Schmidt, Vienna: Lafite, 2015, pp. 169-197 |
| 2014 | "(Anti)Primitivism - Ethel Smyth's 'great fugue'", in: Musiktheorie, Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 29 (2014), Issue 4, S. 317-332 "Music/history as acreation: On the The Metaphorics of Ernst Kurth's Writings on Music Theory in contextin: Biological Metaphors. Between Art and Science in Modern Times and Modernity, ed. by Anja Zimmermann, Berlin: Reimer 2014, pp. 49-70 "Common education? Different perspectives. The musical education of the siblings Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", in: 250 Jahre Familie Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn-Studien. Beiträge zur neueren deutschen Kulturgeschichte, Sonderband), edited by Roland Schmidt-Hensel and Sebastian Panwitz, Hanover: Werhan, 2014, pp. 109-130 |
| 2012 | "Does music tell gender history(ies)?- Reflections on musical narratology and gender", in: Musiktheorie, Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft27 (2012), Issue 1, pp. 19-27 |
| 2011 | "From a place of longing to a place of memory. Fanny Hensel's Rome", in: "Dahin!..." - Musikalisches Reiseziel Rom. Projections and realities in the 'long 19. Century' | "There!...": Roma come meta di viaggi musicali. Proiezioni e realtà nel 'lungo XIX secolo' (Yearbook Music and Gender 4), edited by Sabine Meine and Rebecca Grotjahn, Hildesheim: Olms 2011, pp. 45-55 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Lieder (ohne Worte) im Dialog', in: Mendelssohn-Interpretationen. The unknown Mendelssohn: The song oeuvre (Zürcher Musikstudien 7), ed. by Dominik Sackmann and Antonio Baldassarre, Bern: Lang, 2011, S. 101-124 "On the genealogy of Mendelssohn's garden at Leipziger Straße 3 - a reading of traces", in : Musik-Stadt. Traditions and perspectives of urban music cultures. Report on the XIV International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung from 28 September to 3 October 2008 in Leipzig, edited by Stefan Keym and Katrin Stöck, vol. 3, Musik in Leipzig, Wien und anderen Städten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Leipzig: Schöder, 2011, pp. 400-411 |
| 1996-2010 | "Spaziergänge im Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten - Hörwege in eine Musik Sofia Gubaidulinas", in: Musikgeschichten - Lebenswelten - Vermittlungsformen (Musik - Kultur - Gender 7), ed. by Martina Bick, Julia Heimerdinger and Christa Warnke, Vienna: Böhlau, 2010, pp. 263-280 "Schön Rohtraut und das Sattelpferd. Lyrisches und biographisches Ich in Ethel Smyths Liedkompositionen der 1870er Jahre", in: Felsensprengerin, Brückenbauerin, Wegbereiterin: Die Komponistin Ethel Smyth | Rock Blaster, Bridge Builder, Road Paver: The Composer Ethel Smyth (Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Musik 2), ed. by Cornelia Bartsch, Rebecca Grotjahn and Melanie Unseld, Munich: Allitera, 2010, pp. 121-152 "Erzählerische Momente in der zeitgenössischen Musik als Momente der Erinnerung", in: Erzählen. Narrative Traces in the Arts, ed. by Ulrike Hentschel and Gundel Mattenklott, Berlin, Milow, Strasburg: Schibri, 2009, S. 121-143 "Dialogicity versus univers(al)ity? Music with Lea Mendelssohn", in: Musikwelten, Lebenswelten. Jüdische Identitätssuche in der deutschen Musikkultur (Jüdische Moderne 9), ed. by Beatrix Borchard and Heidy Zimmermann, Köln [u.a.]: Böhlau, 2009, pp. 135-158 "Leipziger Strasse Three: Sites for Music"(together with Beatrix Borchard) in: Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn Bartholdy) and her Circle, Oxford 2005Fernham: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 119-140, therein Part II "Music as Correspondence", pp. 125-140 "Spaces for women. Fanny Hensel as composer and concert organiser", in: Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Ein Frauenschicksal im 19. Jahrhundert (Koblenzer Mendelssohn-Tage 4), ed. by Veronika Leggewie, Bell: Top Music, 2005, pp. 97-131 "Virtuosity and travesty - women as virtuosos"in: Musical Virtuosity (Sound and Concept 1), ed. by Heinz von Loesch, Ulrich Mahlert and Peter Rummenhöller, Mainz [et al:] Schott, 2004, pp. 77-90 "Birthday songs by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Reflections on writing"in: Music and Biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbachedited by Cordula Heymann-Wentzel and Johannes Laas, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004, pp. 73-81 "Farewell - Fanny Hensel's examination of Beethoven's late works", in: The "male" and the "female" Beethoven (Schriften zur Beethovenforschung 18), edited by Cornelia Bartsch, Beatrix Borchard and Rainer Cadenbach, Bonn: Verlag Beethoven-Haus 2003, pp. 295-330 "Fanny Hensel's string quartet between attribution and appropriation"in: Established Scholarship and Feminist Theory in Dialogueed. by Claudia von Braunmühl, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2003, pp. 135-158 "Fanny Hensel. Heine-Lieder", in: From the Salon to the Barricade. Women of the Heine Eraedited by Irina Hundt, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002, pp. 241-254 "Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy. 'In full spiritual vitality'"in: From Salon to Barricade. Women of the Heine Eraedited by Irina Hundt, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002, pp. 61-73 "Musikgeschichtsschreibung als Textraub - neue Variationen über ein altes Thema", in: Muses and Myths(Women's Yearbook of the Hochschule der Künste / University of the Arts 10), Berlin 2002, pp. 150-165 "Das Lied ohne Worte op. 6,1 als offener Brief", in: Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Composing between the ideal of conviviality and Romantic musical aestheticsedited by Beatrix Borchard and Monika Schwarz-Danuser, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 55-72 "The composer Anna Teichmüller. A research report|Szkic z badan nad twórczoscia kompositorki Anny Teichmüller", in: The imposing landscapet. Artists and artists' colonies in the Giant Mountainsexhibition catalogue (German/Polish), published by the Society for Interregional Cultural Exchange e.V., Berlin and the Museum Okregowe w Jeleniej Górze, Berlin and Jelena Góra/Hirschberg 1999, pp. 91-103 "Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)- 'Une femme d'un mérite éminant'", in: Annäherungen VII - an sieben Komponistinnenedited by Clara Mayer, Kassel: furore, 1996, pp. 97-113 |
Multimedia presentations
"Fanny Hensel - Correspondences in Music"multimedia presentation as part of MUGI (Music and Gender on the Internet): http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/Hensel_Korrespondenzen/
Encyclopaedia and handbook articles (also Internet)
"Rebecka Dirichlet", in: MUGI (Music and Gender on the Internet), mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Rebecka_Dirichlet (basic lexical page)
"Fanny Hensel"in: MUGI (Music and Gender on the Internet), mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Fanny_Hensel (basic lexical page)
"Sara Levy", in: MUGI (Music and Gender on the Internet), mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Sara_Levy (basic lexical page)
"Lea Mendelssohn", in: MUGI (Music and Gender on the Internet), mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Lea_Mendelssohn (basic lexical page)
"Fanny Hensel." in: Beethoven-Lexikonedited by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab, pp. 323-324
"Henriette Sontag", in: Beethoven-Lexikonedited by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab, pp. 706-707
"Anna Milder-Hauptmann", in: Beethoven-Lexikonedited by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab, p. 501
"Women in the history of music", in: Der Brockhaus. Music, 2nd completely revised edition 2001, pp. 210-211
"From exoticism to world music"inThe Brockhaus. Music, 2nd completely revised edition 2001, p. 238-39
"Louise Farrenc", in: Chamber Music Guide, ed. by Ingeborg Allihn, Kassel 1998, pp. 194-198
"Luise Adolpha Le Beau", in: Chamber Music Guide, edited by Ingeborg Allihn, Kassel 1998,
pp. 355-358
Unpublished lectures (selection) / congresses with online documentation
"Mothertones, Raw Gestures, and the Dispositif of Absolute Music": A De-Construction, keynote at the final conference of the Art/School/Differences project at the Zurich University of the Arts on 11-12 November 2016 (conception Carmen Mörsch, Sophie Vögele and in co-operation with an international advisory board of representatives from art universities in Canada, Johannesburg, the Netherlands, etc.). Documentation of the keynotes and discussions: https://blog.zhdk.ch/artschooldifferences/because-its-2016-challenging-inclusion-and-exclusion-at-swiss-art-schools/
"Gesture - Body - Sonography: Intersections Between Gender Ethnicity andClass in Phono- and Cinematographic Phantasies in Europe. 1800 ∙1900", at the international congress Gender - Performance - Activism: Transcultural Conversations of the ICTM study goup on 14 June 2016 at the University of Bern
Workshop: Gender Studies in Musicology. Developments, positions, tendencies conceived together with Christa Brüstle, Graz, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, 24-26 June 2016 http://genderforschung.kug.ac.at/zentrum-fuer-genderforschung/tagung-gender-studies-dokumentation.html
"Music and the Power of Conversation or: Beethoven in the Salon", at the international conference The European Salon in the19th Century, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 2-4 October 2015
"Lectures and Songs, or: Fanny Hensel's Early Singspiele", at the conference Liedgesang im Biedermaier at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, November 2013
"O you dear Augustina. Von der Not des musikalischen Autors um 1900" - at the series Musik und Diversity at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, December 2012
"Between Identities. Ethel Smyth and her Opera The Boatswain's Mate in Egypt" - at the conference of the International Musicological Society in Rome, July 2012
"Chiquinha Gonzaga and the Brazilian Tango" - at the Milonga+ series at the University of Basel on 17 March 2012
"Goethe's Faust and the Light of Tolerance: Intertextuality and Light Imagery in Fanny Hensel's Faust Scene" - at the conference Music in Goethe's Faust - Goethe's Faust in Music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 20-22 April 2012 (chaired by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Florian Krobb)