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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians Third Edition, 1919
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1BENDA—BENEDICT
3Ben'da, Joseph, violinist, pupil and youngest brother of Franz; b. May 7, 1724; d. Berlin, Feb. 22, 1804. His brother's successor as leader; pensioned 1797.
5Ben'da, Karl Hermann Heinrich, youngest son of Georg; b. Potsdam, May 2, 1748; d. March 15, 1836. Fine violinist, leader of the royal opera-orch., teacher of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Rungenhagen. Comp. chamber-music.
7Ben'del, Franz, b. Schönlinde, northern Bohemia, March 23, 1833; d. Berlin, July 3, 1874. Accomplished pianist, pupil of Proksch (Prague) and Liszt (Weimar); from 1862 in Berlin as teacher in Kullak's Academy.—Works: Salon-pieces for pf., of real merit; pf.-concerto, pf.-trio, sonata for pf. and violin, études (Am Genfer See, op. 109; Study in Sixths, B♭ m.), nocturnes, romances, etc.; also symphonies, 4 masses and several books of songs, many of which are charming.
9Ben'deler, Johann Philipp, b. Riethnordhausen, n. Erfurt, 1660; d. 1708 as cantor in Quedlinburg (Harz). Clavccinist, org. and writer (his Organopoeia, publ. 1690, was republ. 1739 as Orgelbaukunst).
11Ben'der, Jakob, brother of Valentin; b. Bechtheim, 1798; d. Antwerp, Aug. 9, 1844, as director of the Antwerp wind-band, having succeeded his brother in this position. Also clarinettist; composed military music.
13Ben'der, (Jean) Valentin, b. Bechtheim, n. Worms, Sept. 19, 1801; d. Brussels, Apr. 14, 1873. Clarinet-virtuoso and bandmaster; music-director to the (Belgian) Royal House. Composed military music and clarinet-pcs.
15Ben'dix, Max, conductor; b. Detroit, Mich., March 28, 1866. Educated in N. Y., Cincinnati, and Berlin. Concert-master M. O. H. (1886); Theo. Thomas Orch., N. Y. and Chicago (1886–96); toured as soloist (1896–1900); private teaching and concerts to 1905; concert-master M. O. H. (1905); cond. for Manhattan Op. H. (1907); toured (1908), giving 100 recitals, 25 joint recitals with Rudolph Ganz; asst.-cond. M. O. H., (1909); cond. many operettas (1910–14) in N. Y. and London; cond. Nat. Symph. Orch., Chicago (1914–15); cond. at World's Fair (1893); St. Louis (1904); at present with H. W. Savage.—Works: 36 songs; Tema con Variazioni for 'cello and orch.; The Sisters, ballad for sop. w. orch.; music to the play Experience; vln.-concerto in E m.; Pavlowa, valse-caprice for orchestra.
17Ben'dix, Otto, b. Copenhagen, July 26, 1845; d. San Francisco, March 1, 1904. Pupil of A. Rée and Gade; also of Kullak (Berlin) and Liszt (Weimar). Pf.-teacher in Copenhagen Cons., and oboist in theatre-orch. Settled in Boston, Mass., 1880, as teacher of pf. in the N. E. Cons.; removed to San Francisco in 1895, and establ. there his own Cons; gave very successful concerts in Europe and America, and published some pieces for pf., etc.
19Ben'dix, Victor (Emanuel), b. Copenhagen, May 17, 1851; violin-virtuoso, pianist, composer; pupil and protégé of Gade. Living in Copenhagen as a pf.-teacher and conductor of a choral society. Besides pf.-compositions of great merit, he has written 4 symphonies:—Symphony Zur Hohe, in C [also named Felsensteigung]; in D, Sommerklange aus Sudrussland; in A m.; in D m.; an overture; a pf.-concerto; a pf.-trio; choral works w. orch.; etc.
21Ben'dl, Karl, b. Prague, April 16, 1838; d. there Sept. 16, 1897. Pupil of Blažok and Pietsch at the Organists' School, Prague, till 1858. For a time he was chorusmaster of the German Opera, Amsterdam (1864). Returned 1865 to Prague; after 1866, conductor of the male choral society 'Hlahol.'—Works: Czech national operas Lejla (1868), Bretislav and Jitka (1869), Cernahorci (1881), Karel Skréta (comic, 1883), Ditě Tábora [Child of the Camp] (1892, 3 acts), Mother Mila (1895), The Bagpiper (1907); all at the National Th., Prague, and on its standing repertory. Also a ballet, Bohemian Wedding; 3 masses, several cantatas for soli, ch. and orch.; an overture, a Dithyramb, a Concert Polonaise, a Slavonic Rhapsody, etc. for orch.; a string-quartet; 200 Czech songs and choruses; pf.-music.—Bendl, jointly with Smetana and Dvořák, earned the distinction of winning general recognition for Czech musical art.
23Benedict, Sir Julius, b. Stuttgart, Nov. 27, 1804; d. London, June 5, 1885. He was the son of a Jewish banker; pupil of Abeille, Hummel (1819, Weimar), and Weber (1820, Dresden). In 1823, Kapellm. at the Karnthnerthor Th., Vienna, and 1825 at the San Carlo Th., Naples, where his first opera, Giacinta ed Ernesto (1829), was performed, which, like I Portoghesi un Goa (Stuttgart, 1830) was not a marked success. After 2 visits to Paris (1830 and '35), he settled in London, where he became a fashionable pf.-teacher and concert-giver, and also thoroughly anglicized. 1836, conductor of opera buffa at the Lyceum, 1837 at Drury Lane, where his first English opera, The Gypsy's Warning, was produced (1838). In 1850 and '51 he was conductor to Jenny Lind on her American tours; then became Col. Mapleson's conductor at Her Majesty's Th. and Drury Lane, and in 1859 at Covent Garden; also of the Monday Popular Concerts. He also conducted the Norwich Festivals from 1845–78, and (1876–80) the Liverpool Philharmonic. He was knighted in 1871.
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