Fanny Mendelssohn was a German composer and skilled pianist during the early Romantic era. She created more than 460 musical pieces, such as a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, over 125 piano works, and more than 250 lieder. Most of her music was not published while she was alive. Though she was admired for her piano skills, she rarely performed publicly beyond her family group. Born and raised in Berlin, she received a full musical education from her mother and other teachers including Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her younger brother, Felix Mendelssohn, who was also a composer and pianist, had the same training, and they shared a close bond. Because of her family’s concerns and the social rules about women at the time, some of her work was published under her brother’s name in his Opus 8 and 9. In 1829, she married artist Wilhelm Hensel, and the next year they had one child named Sebastian. Despite ongoing doubts from her family about her musical goals, she published a collection of songs as her Opus 1 in 1846. The following year, she passed away suddenly from a stroke. Since the 1990s, more detailed studies of her life and music have been done to better understand her contributions. An example of confusion about her work was the Easter Sonata, which was wrongly credited to her brother in 1970 until document studies in 2010 corrected this mistake. In recognition of both siblings, the Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum opened in Hamburg, Germany, on May 29, 2018.