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  BENDA - LoveToKnow Article on BENDA
Georg Benda was a famous clavier player and oboist, but his chief interest for modern musical history lies in his melodramas.
Benda's first melodrama, Ariadne auf Naxos, was written in 1774 after his return from a visit to Italy.
Mozart's imagination was much fired by Benda's new vehicle for dramatic expression, and in 1778 he wrote to his father with the greatest enthusiasm about a project for composing a duodrama on the model of Benda's Ariadne auf Naxos and Medea, both of which he considered excellent and always carried about with him.
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 AllRefer.com - Georg Anton Benda (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Georg Anton Benda[gA´Orkh An´tOn ben´dA] Pronunciation Key, 1722–95, Bohemian composer.
Benda, whose Bohemian name was JirI AntonIn Benda, came from a musical family that moved to Prussia in 1742.
Benda is best known for his melodramas : dramatic works in which a speaking part is set against orchestral music : and singspiels.
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 Christian Benda Heritage
GEORG BENDA, 1722-1795, one of the most representative members of this family, creator of the melodrama, is being nominated "Hofkapellmeister" of the Duke of Gotha.
JEAN BENDA's mother, JOHANNA BENDA, born in 1838 in BERLIN, a child prodigy pianist, is a close friend to CLARA SCHUMANN with whom she plays four-handed.
From JEAN BENDA's marriage with the violist and poet DORA BENDA-HAMANN, a chamber music partner of the cellist HUGO BECKER, are born the violinist LOLA BENDA and the composer and pianist SEBASTIAN BENDA, a child prodigy, CHRISTIAN BENDA's father.
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 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jirí Antonin Benda, known in German as Georg Benda, was born in 1722 at Stare Beniltky and had his schooling in Bohemia before moving in 1742 with the rest of his family to join his brother Frantisek at Potsdam, where he became a violinist in the court orchestra.
For the Seyler troupe Benda wrote his melodramas Ariadne aufNaxos, Medea and Pygmalion, the first two of which aroused the admiration of Mozart, who heard performances in Mannheim and planned something of the same kind on the subject of Semiramide.
Benda had been given the title of Kapelldirektor in 1770, but resigned in 1778, moving to Hamburg and to Vienna.
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 Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Benda, Jiri Antonin
Benda, Georg  · Biography showing his movement from musician to composer, including his influence on German melodramas.
Georg (Anton) [Jirí Antonin] Benda  · cached · Biography noting family connections and showing his work in the Prussian court from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
Benda, Georg  · cached · Entry from the 1911 Encyclopedia touching on his famous family and focusing on him as the most important member of the clan.
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 Off on a Tangent 1/04
While many may be vaguely aware of the name Benda, I find most of us blissfully ignorant that there was more than one musician of that name, or that, like the Bach family, the Benda family formed a significant musical dynasty in 18th century Germany.
Georg Benda was a contemporary and friend of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) and was an exponent of that late German galant style, empfindsamer stil (sensitive style.) Benda was very successful in his day, counting Mozart as one of his admirers.
Benda's sonatinas are individually scattered throughout various collections of sonatinas and are available in another pricey OUP Urtext edition, edited by T. Roberts.
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 Music Directory: Benda, Jiri Antonin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benda, Georg - Entry from the 1911 Encyclopedia touching on his famous family and focusing on him as the most important member of the clan.
Benda, Georg - Biography showing his movement from musician to composer, including his influence on German melodramas.
Georg (Anton) [Jirí Antonin] Benda - Biography noting family connections and showing his work in the Prussian court from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
jazar-music.com /directory/Composition/Composers/B/Benda,_Jiri_Antonin   (252 words)

  
 Georg Benda - Biography and Works by Classical Favorites
Georg Benda was born in June 30, 1722, Bohemia (now in Czech Republic) died November 6, 1795, Köstritz, Saxony (Germany).
Czech Jirí Antonín Benda was a composer widely admired during his lifetime for his stage works.
The third son of Jan Jirí Benda and his wife, Dorota Brixi, both musicians, and brother of the violinist František Benda, he went with his family to Berlin in 1742.
www.classicalfavorites.com /composers/Georg_Benda   (97 words)

  
 Benda, Georg --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The German mathematician Georg Cantor founded the theory of sets and introduced the concept of transfinite numbers.
The mission of the literary scholar Georg Brandes was to free Denmark from its cultural isolation and provincialism.
The German dramatist Georg Büchner exercised a marked influence on the naturalistic drama that came into vogue in the 1890s and, later, on the expressionism that voiced the disillusionment of many artists and intellectuals after World War I. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding figures in German dramatic literature.
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 HOASM: Franz [Frantisek] Benda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Eldest of five musical children of Jan Jiri [Johann Georg] Benda (1686-1757) and Dorota Brixi.
In 1720 he ran away from his position in the choir at St. Nicolas's in Prague; he ended up in Dresden, where he sang in the court chapel choir and began study of violin and viola.
Benda was famous for his cantabile playing; copies of his violin works contain embellished melodic lines that perhaps represent the way he played them.
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 Benda, Georg Anton on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benda, whose Bohemian name was Jiří Antonín Benda, came from a musical family that moved to Prussia in 1742.
His brother, the violinist Franz (in Bohemian, František) Benda, became a favorite of Frederick II.
Benda is best known for his melodramas—dramatic works in which a speaking part is set against orchestral music—and singspiels.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Benda-G1e.asp   (214 words)

  
 Georg Anton Jiri Antonin Benda Audio CDs: Music-Hills.com
Georg Anton (Jiri Antonin) Benda, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Mario Duschenes - Master of the Flute
Georg Anton (Jiri Antonin) Benda, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Mario Duschenes (Artist)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, August Wilhelm Bach, Georg Anton (Jiri Antonin) Benda, Jean-Joseph Boutmy, Johannes Brahms, Franz Xaver Brixi, Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky, Antonin Dvorak, Johann Jacob Froberger, Adolph Friedrich Hesse - Organa Antiqua Bohemica
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 benda from Music44.com (Page 1)
Here we offer six sonatinas from various composers and periods to further introduce students to this musical form before going into the complete sonatas.
Volume II includes sonatinas at a more advanced level than Volume I. Here we offer six sonatinas from various composers and periods to further introduce students to this musical form before going into the complete sonatas.
Benda Sonata For Flute And Cemba Sonata for Flute and Cembalo.
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 Georg Benda: Twelve Sonatinas at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
Georg Benda: Twelve Sonatinas at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
Twelve Sonatinas by Bohemian composer, Georg Benda, edited by Richard Jones.
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 Amazon.com: Music: Benda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 CanSeek.CA » Arts » Music » Composition » Composers » B » Benda, Jiri Antonin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Recent Acquisitions in Music - April 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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