Anna Franziska Benda

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Anna Franziska Benda, married Hattasch, around 1751, painter unknown
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Anna Franziska Benda , also Anna Franziska Hattasch or Anna Franziska Hataš , (baptized May 26, 1728 in Alt-Benatek , Bohemia; †  February 15, 1781 in Gotha ) was a Bohemian-German singer ( soprano ) of the family of musicians Benda .

Life

Anna Franziska Benda was the youngest child and the only daughter of the line weaver and musician Hans Georg Benda and his wife Dorothea Brixi . Her brothers Franz Benda , Johann Georg Benda and Joseph Benda were already violinists in the court orchestra of Frederick the Great when the parents left Bohemia for Potsdam with their three younger children (including Viktor Benda and Georg Anton Benda ) in 1742 . Here Anna Franziska received singing lessons from her brother Franz Benda, who had already received a solid education as a choirboy, as did his daughters Wilhelmine Benda, Maria Carolina Benda and Juliane Benda , but also Wilhelmine von Prussia (1709–1758) , sister by Friedrich II.

In 1750 Anna Franziska Benda followed her brother Georg Anton Benda to Gotha, who had been appointed court conductor there shortly before, and was also accepted as court chamber singer. Her pure soprano voice, with which she was able to hold notes unusually long, as well as her special trill technique were mentioned as outstanding in contemporary literature (see section Literature). Georg Anton Benda used this talent after his educational trip to Italy (1765) for the performance of his Italian opera Xiudo riconosciuto and the Italian arias.

In 1751 Anna Franziska Benda married the violinist and later court conductor Hattasch . Her three sons also became musicians. Heinrich Christoph Hattasch is said to have composed the opera The Barber of Baghdad and other stage works. Anna Franziska Hattasch also gave singing lessons, not only to the children of her brother Hermann Christian Benda , Justina Benda and Carl Ernst Eberhard Benda , but temporarily also to the later actress, singer and composer Minna (Charlotte Wilhelmine Franziska) Brandes, daughter of the actor and poet Johann Christian Brandes .

See also

literature

  • The music in past and present (MGG), second, revised edition, edited by Ludwig Finscher, person part 2, Bag-Bi, Bärenreiter Kassel, 1999, column 1070.
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 2: Georg Anton Benda ). de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003568-5 , pp. 78 and 79.
  • Christian Hoeppl: The Rhine: weekly for literature, art and social life , 1860, p. 392–397, also (online)
  • Bohumír Jan Dlabač: General historical artist lexicon for Bohemia and partly also for Moravia and Silesia. 1815, also online and (online)
  • Carl Friedrich Cramer : Magazin der Musik, Volume 1 , Verlag Musicalische Niederlage, 1783, pp. 771 and 772, also (online)
  • Johann Adam Hiller : Life descriptions of famous music scholars and musicians of recent times , Volume 1, Verlag Dyk, 1784, p. 48, also (online)
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see her portrait on page 81 in Franz Lorenz 'biography about Franz Benda
  2. ↑ For example S'ella Vual rendersi (with sighing motifs ), No, non vedrete mai (type coloratura aria ), according to CD booklet concerts , see DNB
  3. ↑ see Franz Lorenz, Franz Benda. P. 79.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Wilhelmine Franziska Brandes in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Anna Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hattasch, Anna Franziska; Hataš, Anna Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-German singer (soprano) of the musician family Benda
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 26, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Benatek , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1781
Place of death Gotha