Jiří Antonín Benda

Jiří Antonín Benda

Jiří Antonín Benda, also Georg Benda (June 30, 1722 – November 6, 1795) was a Czech kapellmeister, violinist and composer.

Born in Staré Benátky, Bohemia, he studied at piarist Gymnasium (grammar school) in Kosmonosy and at jesuit Gymnasium in Jičín in 1735-1742 [Vysloužil, p. 33] . Benda was 19 when Frederick II of Prussia bestowed upon him in 1741 the position of second violinist in the chapel of Berlin. The following year Benda was summoned to Potsdam as a composer and arranger for his older brother Franz, himself an illustrious composer and violinist. Seven years later, in 1749 he entered the service of the Duke of Gotha as chapel master, where he constantly cultivated his talents for composition, specializing in religious music.

A stipend from the Duke allowed him to take a study trip to Italy.

Benda had particular success with a form of musical stage entertainment, the melodrama, which influenced Mozart. The melodrama "Ariadne auf Naxos" is generally considered his best work. At its debut in 1775, the opera received enthusiastic reviews in Germany and afterwards, in the whole of Europe, with music critics calling attention to its originality, sweetness and ingenious execution. Besides that he wrote many instrumental pieces including a few sonatinas.

Georg Benda died in Köstritz, Gotha at the age of 73, leaving his son, Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1752–1796), who briefly carried on the family musical tradition, serving as a music director in Hamburg and later in Mecklenburg, before finally becoming the Concertmaster in Königsberg. He died less than a year after his father.

Opera compositions

*"Xindo riconosciuto", (libretto by Giovanni Andrea Galletti, opera seria, 1765, Gotha)
*"Il buon marito" (libretto by Giovanni Andrea Galletti, Intermezzo, 1766, Gotha)
*"Il nuove maestro di capella", (Intermezzo, 1766, Gotha)
*"Ariadne auf Naxos", (libretto by Johann Christian Brandes, melodrama, 1775, Gotha)
*"Der Jahrmarkt" ("Der Dorfjahrmarkt/Lukas und Bärbchen"), (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1775, Gotha)
*"Medea", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, melodrama, 1775, Leipzig )
*"Walder", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1776, Gotha)
*"Romeo und Julie", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1776, Gotha)
*"Der Holzhauer oder Die drey Wünsche", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1778, Gotha)
*"Pygmalion", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, melodrama, 1779, Gotha)
*"Das tartarische Gesetz", (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1787, Mannheim)

Notes

References

*The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.
*Vsloužil, Jiří: Hudební slovník pro každého II. Vizovice: Lípa, 2001.ISBN 80-86093-23-9

External links

*IMSLP|id=Benda, Jiří Antonín|cname=Jiří Antonín Benda
* [http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/Benda_Family/ family composers]
* [http://www.naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Benda,+Jan+Jiri Information]
* [http://www.hoasm.org/XID/BendaG.html Biography]


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