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•free Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel sheet music• Because you've played enough Chopin already henselpushers.org/links Also dishwasher appreciation Sundays 🐈 🫧 🥣 🍴
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Hello, lots of new followers, so if you don’t know my whole thing:

Since 2020, I’ve been working on posting 100% of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s 450+ scores as free PDFs online at henselpushers.org.

Earlier this year, I finished her chamber music and solo piano works.
Pie chart: title: Fanny Hensel Piano Pieces - Publication status: 
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dark gray: “lost” 3.7%; 
light gray: “unfinished” 7.4%; 
green: “already online” 17.0%; 
blue: “HenselPushers” 71.9%. Pie chart: title: Fanny Hensel Chamber/Instrumental Works - publication status: 
Segments clockwise from 12 o’clock: 
gray: “unfinished/lost” 13.3%; 
green: “already online” 6.7%; 
blue: “HenselPushers” 80.0%.
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I know I’m not the only one who experiences this, and I can imagine the reasons for it. But it feels kinda embarrassing for the version of me that is dedicated to diligent practice.
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Why can I play piano better after a two week vacation—still jet lagged and sleep deprived—than when I’ve been practicing every day for months?
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We’re listening tonight to the tremendous Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke. It’s very English, but there are hints of Debussy here and there. If you ever doubted the viola could occupy the spotlight, you need to hear this.

youtu.be/d-M4UznmeCA?...
Matthew Lipman and Jeremy Denk | Clarke Viola Sonata
YouTube video by Matthew Lipman
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Well it’s at a private residence, and it’s being actively used, so I’ll let it slide!
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Pictured in this 19th c. painting of her music room by Helfft (behind piano)
Painting of an open room with many paintings in the wall, big windows on the left wall, a desk, some chairs, a piano and the music stand in the corner
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It’s Fanny’s music stand!!
A beautiful carved wood triangular music stand with some sheet music on it
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Another item on mantissa’s daily agenda is called “tap the raptors” and it’s where she does this every evening after her dinner:
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Dishwasher Sunday!
Videos will resume next week when I’m back in town.
A tabby cat looks into an open dishwasher
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You know what birds are great…magpies.
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Amazing. PS I saw some wild brass instruments at the musical instrument museum in Brussels:
Two 18th-19th century trumpets in display behind glass Skinny loopy horn Brass instruments, some with several bells
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I was going to be an asshole and recreate the funeral meme at Chopin and Berlioz’s graves but there were many people there having Moments, so I jut took a picture instead
Meme of a guy smiling, kneeling at a fresh grave Chopin’s tomb with lots of flowers and candles
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Got to tell my mom about the accident-prone young Sax:
Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead. At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk, 61 and later swallowed a pin.
He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side. Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying. 7]
His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live". His neighbors called him "little Sax, the ghost". 17]
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My favorite tourist activity: visiting the cemeteries! Went to Père-Lachaise and Montmarte in one day
Gravestone of Anton Reicha, with a face, a woman, and a cherub Gravestone of the Desfossez family with a stone cross on top Gravestone of Nadia and Lili Boulanger with some flowers Brass plaque of a saxophone on the side of a stone memorial for Adolphe Sax
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Look at this magnificent beast
A tabby stretched long on the floor. Her belly is spotted and lit with warm light, and her back is dark in dim magenta light
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“Can you send a picture of the cat with the dishwasher? It’s for the internet.”
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I’m out of town but I’m getting regular cat updates and Mantissa and her dishwasher are doing great.
Tabby cat sitting next to an open dishwasher, looking at the camera Tabby cat sitting next to an open dishwasher, looking in the dishwasher