The Music Kept Her Hand” tells the story of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, an exceptional pianist and composer of more than 460 works, several of whose songs were published under her brother Felix’s name. The lyrics follow her music from house to house, from voice to voice, while authorship was reassigned on paper. The signature changed; the intervals, cadences and phrasing did not. Written in sparse, fragmentary lines, the song lets the music itself bear witness: the page carried his name, the sound kept her hand.more