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Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn's secret partnership
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Classical music's secrets and lies
9. Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn's secret partnership
Mendelssohn passed off his wife’s compositions as his own, but this isn’t as mean as it seems. It was only so they would be published, because publishers wouldn’t take a female composer seriously.
