ABSTRACT
Fanny Mendelssohn and Georg Wilhelm Hegel enjoyed Johann Sebastian, a healthy and happy baby, who just celebrated his first birthday. His parents were occupied with their creative work; Wilhelm in his new position as appointed professor at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and instructing students in his own atelier –formerly the Mendelssohn's Gartenhaus in 3 Leipzigstrasse. Fanny was occupied with Hiob, a chamber cantata for solo, choir and orchestra, which she completed on 1 October, the day of her second wedding anniversary. Hiob, like the Cantata Nach Aufhorn der Cholera in Berlin, was written in the time of the epidemic; yet, while the latter is explicitly connected to the disaster and coined as 'Choleramusik'. Hiob is more of a personal piece that is constructed on a central voice, signifying the subjectivity of the composer. Fanny Hensel bridges experience and knowledge, the private and the collective, subjectivity and objectivity, wisdom and perception.
