HenselPushers

HenselPushers HenselPushers exists to share and celebrate the work of F***y Mendelssohn Hensel.

By making her compositions more accessible, we invite musicians to explore and engage with her work.

06/26/2026

More from my conversation with about recording F***y Hensel’s complete piano works 🎹
Watch the whole video on YouTube—link in bio

06/24/2026

Continuing my conversation with who is halfway through recording ALL of F***y Hensel’s solo piano works.
Listen to our full conversation on youtube…link in bio

06/23/2026

Wikipedia changed ‘F***y Mendelssohn’ to ‘F***y Hensel’…

06/22/2026

Check out my new youtube video talking with .markovina about her new album—volume 1 of F***y Hensel’s COMPLETE solo piano works!

Link in bio

Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that F***y’s father sent her as a teenager?“Music will perhaps become [Feli...
06/10/2026

Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that F***y’s father sent her as a teenager?

“Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.”

Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!

In my newest patreon post, I talk about the unfair characterization of Abraham as the villain of F***y’s life story, and share research from and .unterrichten that his famous letter—maybe the most quoted thing he ever wrote—has been misquoted this entire time.

Link in stories or link to Patreon in bio!

This month’s easy piano arrangement is the introduction to Hensel’s Easter Sonata arranged for early intermediate pianis...
06/05/2026

This month’s easy piano arrangement is the introduction to Hensel’s Easter Sonata arranged for early intermediate pianists!

Join as a benefactor on Patreon for access for you or your students!

(Patreon at link in bio)

New edition published today! The legendary Easter Sonata for The Easter Sonata has one of the more remarkable origin s...
05/15/2026

New edition published today! The legendary Easter Sonata for

The Easter Sonata has one of the more remarkable origin stories in the catalog; it took nearly two centuries and the contributions of many researchers for this elusive sonata to be rediscovered and correctly attributed to its composer, F***y Hensel.

Read the story and download the score for free at the link in bio

The work is influenced by Bach’s Passion music and has programmatic elements. Read more about the rediscovery of the sonata here.

The sonata has four movements:

The first movement is in sonata-allegro form in A major, and the influence of is apparent.
The second movement, in E minor, has allusions to ; it is in prelude-and-fugue form and quotes the St. Matthew Passion (F***y and Felix would have been rehearsing the Passion at the time of composition, one year before the famous revival concerts in 1829).
The third movement is a scampering Frühlingslied (spring song), primarily in E major.
The finale is a turbulent movement in A minor which depicts the earthquake at the moment of Jesus’s death, followed by an A-major chorale on Bach’s “Christe du Lamm Gottes”

The April 4th From Keyboard to Quartet lecture-concert video is up on Patreon for paid subscribers! If you couldn’t mak...
04/17/2026

The April 4th From Keyboard to Quartet lecture-concert video is up on Patreon for paid subscribers! If you couldn’t make it to Berkeley for the event, you can watch the video on demand from anywhere!

I have a new video on YouTube talking with pianist Brianna Conrey about her upcoming multimedia performance of Hensel’s ...
04/17/2026

I have a new video on YouTube talking with pianist Brianna Conrey about her upcoming multimedia performance of Hensel’s Das Jahr on April 26!

Thank you to everyone who came to From Keyboard to Quartet on Saturday! It was an amazing event, and a video will be ava...
04/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to From Keyboard to Quartet on Saturday! It was an amazing event, and a video will be available on Patreon in the next week or two!

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