十九世紀女性作曲家芬妮.亨賽爾,娘家姓孟德爾頌(Fanny Hensel, geb. Mendelssohn, 1805-1847) 一八○五年十一月十四日生於德國漢堡,是菲利克斯.孟德爾頌(Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847) 之姊。 一生寫過許多鋼琴、聲樂和室內樂作品,但是作品鮮少發表及出版,只有少數的作品在其弟名下出版過,本論文所探討的《年》鋼琴曲集也是在她辭世(1847) 一百多年之後才被世人發現手稿並發表演出。 本論文研究的重心是芬妮.亨賽爾的《年》鋼琴曲集,探討芬妮.亨賽爾她如何將音樂與生活、詩詞和插畫作結合,勾繪出一部以音樂分別記錄一年當中十二個月份的音樂日記作品。 本文共有四個章節,第一章緒論將回顧研究本作品的文獻資料,第二章陳述芬妮的生平事蹟,第三章探討本套作品的創作起源與手法,第四章分析與詮釋其十二首樂曲,最後是以結語將本文作總結。
The 19th-century woman composer, Fanny Hensel, geb. Mendelssohn (1805-1847) was born in Hamburg, Germany. She was the elder sister of the famous composer, Felix Mendelssohn. Her output in music included many piano, vocal and chamber music, but these works were rarely being published during her life time. The main focus of this paper is to study Fanny Hensel’s piano cycle “Das Jahr” . The cycle comprised twelve pieces each named after a month of a year and in this cycle Fanny combined poetry and illustration perfectly into a music diary. There are four chapters in the thesis. Chapter One is a discussion of related reference and literature. Chapter Two portrays Fanny’s biographical information. Chapter three explores the historical background of the pieces and compositional techniques. Chapter Four contains the analysis and interpretation of the music. The last chapter is a brief conclusion of the thesis.