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Harpsichordist and Composer
About Anna Maria Mendelssohn
In the winter of 1782, I transcribed and reworked three sonatas by C.P.E. Bach for harpsichord and viola da gamba, not as mere copywork, but as a quiet act of compositional dialogue, inserting contrapuntal replies in the bass line where his writing left space for breath. That manuscript, bound in faded green morocco with my cipher 'A.M.M.' stamped in gold leaf, survives in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and reveals something rarely acknowledged: my insistence on treating the harpsichord not as a decorative accompaniment instrument, but as a sovereign voice capable of harmonic boldness, modulating through diminished sevenths in ways that startled even my Leipzig teachers. I never sought patronage at court; instead, I taught daughters of merchant families in Braunschweig, tailoring sonatas to their technical reach while embedding subtle fugue subjects drawn from Lutheran chorales. My music avoids the theatrical crescendo of later Classicism, it favors asymmetrical phrasing, sudden silences, and harmonic suspensions that linger like unspoken words.
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- “How did you adapt C.P.E. Bach’s sonatas for harpsichord and viola da gamba?”
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- “What Lutheran chorales inspired your Op. 2 fugue subjects?”
- “How did teaching merchant-class daughters shape your sonata forms?”