Question

Until 2010, the Easter Sonata by a composer with this surname was misattributed to her brother. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this maiden name of Fanny Hensel. Her brother with this surname wrote incidental music for A Midsummer's Night Dream.
ANSWER: Mendelssohn [or Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; accept Fanny Mendelssohn or Felix Mendelssohn; accept Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn Bartholdy or Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]
[10m] Felix Mendelssohn premiered his piece of this genre and number at a private concert for Fanny's 19th birthday. Johannes Brahms' piece of this genre and number channels Beethoven by starting in C minor and ending in C major.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 1 [or First Symphony]
[10h] Fanny made her performing debut with her brother's Piano Concerto No. 1 in this key. Albert Parlow's orchestration of Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 transposes it into this key.
ANSWER: G minor [reject "G"] (The piano version is in F-sharp minor.)
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