Fanny Mendelssohn and the Drawer Full of Music

What You'll Learn

• Learn what a sonata is — a musical story in several chapters, where themes appear, change, and return transformed, like characters growing through an adventure
• Discover that women in the 1800s were often told their talents should stay hidden — and why breaking those unfair rules took tremendous courage
• Understand that Fanny Mendelssohn was just as talented as her famous brother Felix — so talented that for 150 years, one of her greatest works was mistakenly credited to him
• Learn what a 'salon concert' was — private gatherings in someone's home where artists, writers, and musicians would share their work before small audiences
• Experience how music can express feelings we cannot put into words — and why creating art matters even if the whole world never sees it