Released:
2001-01-01

Overview:
Requiem for Fanny recreates the world of Felix Mendelssohn, to the musical accompaniment of his beautiful String Quartet No. 2. In a period setting, actors and dancers perform around and about the musicians, evoking the composer's happy childhood and sophisticated milieu, as well as his close relationship with Goethe and his symbiotic relationship with his sister Fanny, herself a major composer.

Director:
Lorne Brass

Runtime:
0h 0min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Le Quatuor Claudel
  as
  Orchestra
• 
  Vlasta Vrana
  as
  Narrator
• 
  Paul-Antoine Taillefer
  as
  Felix Mendelssohn
• 
  Estelle Clareton
  as
  Fanny Mendelssohn
• 
  Ariane Pare Brass
  as
  Young Fanny Mendelssohn