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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Bellini
2melody. Bellini was buried in Paris, but his remains were afterward removed to Catania, Sicily, his native place, on the forty-first anniversary of his death.
4Bemberg (bän-bërg), Herman, 1861-
5Contemporary composer, whose style is formed after the modern French School. He was born in Buenos Aires, of French parentage, and studied at the Paris Conservatory under Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet. He is the author of numerous songs; a cantata; La Mort de Jeanne d'Arc; a comic opera, Le Baiser Suzon; the opera Elaine, which was produced in New York in 1894. The last work was very successful in London, with a cast which included Melba, Jean and Edouard de Reszké and Plançon.
7Benda, Georg. 1722-1795.
8The most celebrated member of a Bohemian musical family, consisting of the father, Hans Georg Benda, who was a traveling musician and performer on several instruments; Franz, his eldest son, who was a violinist and composer; Johann, the second son, who was a violinist and chamber-musician; Joseph, the youngest son, who was also a violinist and was concertmaster to Friedrich Wilhelm II. at Berlin; and Georg, the third son, who was a composer and pianist of considerable ability. From 1742 to 1748 he was chamber-musician at Berlin and afterward was Court conductor at Gotha. Georg Benda's chief claim to notice lies in his melodramas, Ariadne auf Naxos, Medea, Almansor, and Nadine. These were music-dramas in which the words were spoken and the music was left to the orchestra. He also wrote sacred cantatas, masses and many instrumental works, beside a number of operettas.
10Bendel, Franz. 1833-1874.
11Brilliant Bohemian pianist and composer. Studied in Prague and later with Liszt at Weimar. After finishing his studies he made successful concert tours through Germany and after 1863 taught in Kullak's Academy, Berlin. Wrote concertos, sonatas, études, and fantasias for the piano, in all about one hundred and eighteen works, the best of which are the fantasias on Bohemian folk-songs; also on the themes from Gounod's Faust and Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. He also produced works for the piano, and violin, four masses and a large number of songs.
13*Bendix, Max. 1866-
14Great contemporary American violinist, of broad musicianship and wonderful technique. He was born at Detroit, Michigan, and at the age of eight made his first public appearance as a soloist, being considered a wonderful child. In 1878 he played violin in an orchestra under the direction of Theodore Thomas at the Cincinnati May Musical Festival, and in 1879 became one of the first violinists in the Thomas Orchestra. In 1880 he was appointed concertmaster with Maratzeck at Cincinnati, later serving as concertmaster with the McCall Opera Company of Philadelphia, and also with the Germania Symphony Orchestra of that city. The season of 1885-1886 he was with Anton Seidl in German Opera in New York and this same year was soloist and concertmaster with the Van der Stucken Orchestra in New York. Following a tour as concertmaster and soloist with the Thomas Orchestra, he accepted the appointment, in 1888, of first professor in the violin department of the Cincinnati College of Music. After a year spent abroad in travel and study, he officiated as concertmaster with the Thomas Orchestra at the Cincinnati Festival of 1890, and the following year accompanied the orchestra on its farewell tour. When the famous organization was transferred to Chicago he received the appointment as concertmaster soloist and assistant conductor, and occupied this post from 1891 to 1896, winning a very large circle of friends and admirers. Max Bendix, on Theodore Thomas' resignation, was unanimously elected conductor of the Theodore Thomas World's Fair Orchestra and President of the World's Fair Orchestral Association. In 1897-1898, the famous ensemble, Ysaye, Marteau, Bendix, Gerardy and Lachaume made a transcontinental tour. On Bendix's return, he organized the Bendix String Quartet, which gave subscription concerts in New York, and later throughout the East. Max Bendix was conductor of the St. Louis World's Fair Orchestra, in 1904, was engaged in 1905 for the
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