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This week\u2019s new classical album should be a treat for literature lovers. To celebrate the 250th birthday of author Jane Austen, it transports listeners back to her world, presenting music that she would have known and possibly even played. <\/p>\n
\u201cJane Austen\u2019s Piano<\/a>\u201d is the newest release from British pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason<\/a>, one of the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings<\/a>, as a follow up to her debut solo album<\/a> released earlier last year.<\/p>\n Like many women of her social class in late eighteenth-century England, Austen learned the piano from an early age. And while many of her letters and other personal reminiscences have been lost over the years, her family\u2019s piano books still survive, and even include pieces copied out in Austen\u2019s own handwriting. <\/p>\n WPR\u2019s \u201cWisconsin Today\u201d newsletter keeps you connected to the state you love without feeling overwhelmed. No paywall. No agenda. No corporate filter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n This new EP from Jeneba Kanneh-Mason includes a few of those works, plus music mentioned in or inspired by Jane Austen\u2019s six novels.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the pieces on this EP that Austen transcribed herself is the \u201cPiano Sonata in C major\u201d by Joseph Haydn. Haydn wrote this sonata in the early 1780s, while he was still serving as the Kappellmeister<\/a> to the Esterhazy family in Austria, but it became hugely popular in England after Haydn\u2019s first trip to London in 1792, when Austen was just 16 years old.<\/p>\nNews with a little more humanity<\/h2>\n