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Famous violinists of to-day and yesterday, 1899
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 56. See the scan on archive.org.
1expressive, and admirable performer;" but Doctor Burney does not mention any lucid interval.
3Early in the eighteenth century Franz Benda was born in Bohemia at the village of Altbenatky, and Benda became the founder of a German school of violin playing. In his youth he was a chorister at Prague and afterward in the Chapel Royal at Dresden. At the same time he began to study the violin, and soon joined a company of strolling musicians who attended fêtes, fairs, etc. At eighteen years of age Benda abandoned this wandering life and returned to Prague, going thence to Vienna, where he pursued his study of the violin under Graun, a pupil of Tartini. After two years he was appointed chapel master at Warsaw, and eventually he became a member of the Prince Royal of Prussia's band, and then concert master to the king.
5Benda was a master of all the difficulties
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