Fanny.The.Other.Mendelssohn.2023.108EB Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said:
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At 00:00:08,000, Character said:
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At 00:00:24,400, Character said: (BIRDS CHIRPING)
(DISTANT CLIP-CLOP OF HORSES)

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At 00:00:31,400, Character said: (DISTANT BELLS RINGING)

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At 00:00:33,800, Character said: (BIG BEN CHIMES)

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At 00:00:41,560, Character said: (HORSE NEIGHING)

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At 00:00:44,680, Character said: SHEILA HAYMAN:
Buckingham Palace, London, 1842.

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At 00:00:50,880, Character said: (BIG BEN BONGS)

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At 00:01:00,320, Character said: SHEILA: 'The superstar
German composer, Felix Mendelssohn,

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At 00:01:03,600, Character said: is invited here
to play his famous songs.'

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At 00:01:06,160, Character said: (BELLS CHIMING)

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At 00:01:11,440, Character said: (WOMAN SINGING)
# Schoner und schoner
# Schmuckt sich der Plan

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At 00:01:14,640, Character said: # Schmeichelnde Lufte
# Wehen mich an

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At 00:01:17,360, Character said: # Fort aus der Prosa
# Lasten und Muh'

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At 00:01:21,680, Character said: SHEILA: 'The singer is
Queen Victoria herself.'

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At 00:01:24,560, Character said: # Goldner die Sonne
# Blauer die Luft

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At 00:01:27,440, Character said: 'And the song she chooses as
her favourite is called Italien.

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At 00:01:31,960, Character said: It's a huge honour for Felix.'

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At 00:01:35,320, Character said: # Dort an dem Maishalm
Schwellend von Saft

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At 00:01:38,320, Character said: # Straubt sich der Aloe
Storrische Kraft

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At 00:01:42,000, Character said: # Olbaum, Cypresse
Blond du, du braun

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At 00:01:46,080, Character said: # Nickt ihr wie zierliche

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At 00:01:47,760, Character said: 'But Felix has a problem.

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At 00:01:51,640, Character said: He didn't actually write this song.

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At 00:01:56,560, Character said: It was composed by his sister,
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.

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At 00:02:03,960, Character said: Fanny was
my great-great-great grandmother

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At 00:02:07,080, Character said: but I knew very little
about her musical genius.

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At 00:02:10,200, Character said: Her story had been overshadowed
by her brother

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At 00:02:13,320, Character said: and overlooked by
a male-dominated musical world.

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At 00:02:16,800, Character said: But looking for clues,

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At 00:02:18,440, Character said: I discovered she has
nine Twitter accounts.

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At 00:02:20,880, Character said: Unusual for somebody
who's been dead for 175 years.

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At 00:02:25,720, Character said: So, I realised I wasn't the only
person interested in her.'

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At 00:02:30,000, Character said: Third clap.

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At 00:02:31,040, Character said: Roland Schmidt-Hensel
in the Staatsbibliothek.

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At 00:02:34,080, Character said: 'And I discovered an army of fans

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At 00:02:36,920, Character said: determined to rescue her
from oblivion.'

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At 00:02:39,920, Character said: They have all of these, yes.
Oh, that's amazing.

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At 00:02:44,400, Character said: ROBERT LEHMAN:
Wow.

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At 00:02:46,200, Character said: What is THAT?

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At 00:02:48,920, Character said: Holy crap.

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At 00:02:51,480, Character said: I've never heard anything like it.

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At 00:02:55,280, Character said: ISATA KANNEH-MASON:
I imagine her to have been

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At 00:02:57,840, Character said: very stubborn, thinking,
you know, "This is how I feel.

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At 00:03:00,440, Character said: This is what I want to write."
And not being held back

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At 00:03:03,600, Character said: and just writing something
really expressive.

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At 00:03:07,200, Character said: 'The search for Fanny
took me from London to Berlin,

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At 00:03:10,640, Character said: and Paris to New York.

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At 00:03:12,200, Character said: And revealed the hunt
for a long-lost masterpiece,

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At 00:03:15,400, Character said: the Easter Sonata.

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At 00:03:18,560, Character said: I discovered a story of intense
sibling drama, joy and tragedy.

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At 00:03:23,000, Character said: A woman who defied convention
but dared not defy her family.

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At 00:03:29,320, Character said: This is Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,
a very modern woman,

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At 00:03:33,360, Character said: who just happened to live
two centuries ago.'

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At 00:03:36,640, Character said: (SWEEPING PIANO NOTES)

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At 00:03:38,320, Character said: TIM PARKER-LANGSTON:
Every time she sat down to write,

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At 00:03:41,200, Character said: she was doing so
in a sort of creative vacuum.

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At 00:03:44,600, Character said: The idea of what a composer was,
was exclusively male.

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At 00:03:49,560, Character said: A composer was a man
who wrote music.

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At 00:03:52,400, Character said: She wanted to be a good wife,
a good daughter,

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At 00:03:57,040, Character said: a good sister, a good mother.

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At 00:03:58,960, Character said: At the same time, there was
this fire burning inside her,

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At 00:04:03,360, Character said: intellectual, rigorous,
critical, creative.

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At 00:04:06,640, Character said: That is what gets me
every time with Fanny.

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At 00:04:10,160, Character said: (DRAMATIC PIANO CHORDS)

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At 00:04:17,920, Character said: (SOMBRE MUSIC)

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At 00:04:23,680, Character said: SHEILA:
'When I began looking for Fanny,

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At 00:04:25,600, Character said: all I had of her
was this music stand

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At 00:04:27,720, Character said: and the painting of her music room
where it stood.

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At 00:04:34,800, Character said: I realised I didn't even know
what she looked like.'

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At 00:04:38,600, Character said: Did she look like this?

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At 00:04:40,280, Character said: Or this?

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At 00:04:42,080, Character said: Or this?

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At 00:04:43,600, Character said: They're all radically different
from each other, these pictures.

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At 00:04:47,320, Character said: 'There were no photos in those days.

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At 00:04:49,760, Character said: Most of the pictures we have
of her are imaginary ideals,

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At 00:04:53,040, Character said: not real people.

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At 00:04:55,320, Character said: Including these ones,

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At 00:04:56,880, Character said: which put her firmly in her place
as her brother's support act.

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At 00:05:01,280, Character said: Even the official portrait
isn't accurate.

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At 00:05:04,000, Character said: She was horribly short sighted.

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At 00:05:08,040, Character said: And none of them
shows her as a musician.

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At 00:05:10,560, Character said: That side of Fanny,

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At 00:05:11,960, Character said: as for creative women throughout
history, was just painted out.

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At 00:05:17,360, Character said: So, my job seemed clear,

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At 00:05:19,240, Character said: to find Fanny, the musical genius,

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At 00:05:21,920, Character said: and give her the recognition
she has always deserved.

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At 00:05:29,840, Character said: The first Mendelssohn
was the famous philosopher

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At 00:05:32,440, Character said: of the German Enlightenment, Moses.

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At 00:05:36,080, Character said: His son Abraham
had four children,

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At 00:05:38,280, Character said: including the Mendelssohn
we've all heard of, Felix.

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At 00:05:44,000, Character said: Fanny's born in 1805
and Felix three years later.

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At 00:05:47,640, Character said: From the start,
they're inseparable.'

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At 00:05:49,560, Character said: (PIANO PLAYING)
(DISTANT CHATTER)

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At 00:05:54,200, Character said: SARAH ROTHENBERG: She and Felix
and all of the children

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At 00:05:56,800, Character said: really took great fun in coming up
with nicknames for people,

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At 00:06:01,360, Character said: making fun of people socially.

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At 00:06:03,520, Character said: I mean, there was
tremendous laughter

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At 00:06:05,560, Character said: and fun in the household.
You get that sense all the time.

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At 00:06:12,640, Character said: Yeah!

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At 00:06:14,280, Character said: (DRUM ROLL)

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At 00:06:16,240, Character said: (CYMBAL CRASH)

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At 00:06:17,840, Character said: 'But the thing that's central
to both their lives is music.'

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At 00:06:20,920, Character said: (PIANO PLAYING)

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At 00:06:24,560, Character said: 'They are two prodigies
who live and breathe it together

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At 00:06:27,760, Character said: and for the first few years
they're taught together as well.

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At 00:06:31,520, Character said: Both dreaming
of their future musical careers.'

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At 00:06:34,800, Character said: Fanny's musically brilliant
and Felix is musically brilliant

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At 00:06:39,360, Character said: but she's three years older

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At 00:06:40,880, Character said: and of course,
as children that means a lot.

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At 00:06:43,400, Character said: So, she has almost a parental
kind of relationship to Felix

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At 00:06:48,560, Character said: with music and it's something
that they developed together.

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At 00:06:52,400, Character said: (TRIUMPHANT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC)
(HOOVES CLIP-CLOPPING)

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At 00:06:57,400, Character said: (DOG BARKING)
(HORSE NEIGHING)

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At 00:06:59,520, Character said: 'Their father, Abraham,
is a wealthy banker

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At 00:07:02,320, Character said: who converts the family
from Judaism to Christianity,

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At 00:07:06,440, Character said: adds the Protestant
surname Bartholdy,

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At 00:07:08,880, Character said: and moves them into
this enormous Berlin mansion.

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At 00:07:12,080, Character said: All to cement the family's
reputation in society.'

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At 00:07:16,240, Character said: Their place in European society
was really a new one.

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At 00:07:19,920, Character said: The conversion from Judaism

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At 00:07:22,000, Character said: was a way of becoming
a modern European citizen.

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At 00:07:26,240, Character said: And the family had become
extremely wealthy,

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At 00:07:29,320, Character said: so they were entering
into a social world

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At 00:07:32,560, Character said: that Jews were not
frequently in before.

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At 00:07:36,080, Character said: And so, as a result,
they were extremely careful

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At 00:07:38,440, Character said: about what was proper,
what was not proper.

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At 00:07:43,640, Character said: # Es fallt ein Stern herunter

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At 00:07:48,560, Character said: # Aus seiner funkelnden Hoh

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At 00:07:52,960, Character said: 'What's proper for young ladies
at this time is 'Lieder,'

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At 00:07:56,440, Character said: lyrical songs
with keyboard accompaniment,

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At 00:07:59,120, Character said: that Fanny and her sister
Rebecka, a singer,

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At 00:08:01,760, Character said: can perform in private,

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At 00:08:03,360, Character said: without damaging
the family's reputation.

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At 00:08:07,120, Character said: So...