Английская Википедия:Georg Benda
Georg Anton Benda (Шаблон:Lang-cz; 30 June 1722Шаблон:Snd6 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Biography
Born into a family of notable musicians in Old Benatek (today Benátky nad Jizerou), Bohemia, he studied at the Piarist Gymnasium (grammar school) in Kosmanos and at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Gitschin from 1735 to 1742.[1] Benda was 19 when Frederick the Great 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.[2] Seven years later, in 1749, he entered the service of the Duke of Gotha as Kapellmeister, where he constantly cultivated his talents for composition, specializing in religious music.
A stipend from the duke allowed Benda to take a study trip to Italy in 1764. He returned to Gotha in 1766, and devoted himself to composition. In all, he wrote about ten operas, several operettas, and the melodramas Шаблон:Lang, Medea and Шаблон:Lang. In 1778 he resigned his position and visited Hamburg, Vienna and other cities, and finally settled at the little hamlet of Köstritz.[3]
Шаблон:Listen Benda's most important contribution lies in the development of the German melodramas, a form of musical stage entertainment which influenced Mozart. In 1774, the Swiss-born director Abel Seyler's theatrical company arrived in Gotha, and Seyler commissioned Benda to write several successful melodramas, including Ariadne auf Naxos, Medea and Pygmalion. 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 many sinfonias, keyboard sonatas, keyboard concertos, violin concertos and a smaller number of trio sonatas, violin sonatas and flute sonatas.
Benda also wrote music for masonic rituals.[4]
Benda died in Köstritz, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, 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.
Benda's Harpsichord Concerto in C was featured in Apple Computer's 1989 Knowledge Navigator concept video.Шаблон:Citation needed
Operas and Melodramas
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Giovanni Andrea Galletti, opera seria, 1765, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Galletti, Intermezzo, 1766, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (Intermezzo, 1766, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Шаблон:Interlanguage link, melodrama, 1775, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang) (libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, 1775, Gotha)
- Medea (libretto by Gotter, melodrama, 1775, Leipzig)
- Walder (libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, 1776, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, 1776, Gotha)
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, 1778, Gotha)
- Pygmalion (libretto by Gotter, melodrama, 1779, Vienna)
- Шаблон:Lang, revised as Almansor und Nadine (1791), (unknown librettist, melodrama, 1779, Vienna)[5][6]
- Шаблон:Lang (libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, 1787, Mannheim)
References
Further reading
- Шаблон:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- "4. Georg (Anton) Шаблон:Bracket Benda" by John D. Drake, Thomas Bauman, Zdeňka Pilková, chapter 4 of "Benda family" in Grove Music Online Шаблон:Doi Шаблон:Subscription required
- "1. Georg (Anton) Шаблон:Bracket Benda" by Thomas Bauman, chapter 1 of "Benda family (opera)" in Grove Music Online Шаблон:Doi Шаблон:Subscription required
- Шаблон:Cite Americana
External links
- Шаблон:Commons category-inline
- Шаблон:IMSLP
- List of operas, italianopera.org
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite NIE
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Glatthorn, Austin (2020). "Introduction" in Georg Anton Benda, Philon und Theone, ed. Austin Glatthorn, Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 115. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions doi: 10.31022/C115.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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