Carl Benda (musician)

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Karl (Carl) Hermann Heinrich Benda

Carl Hermann Heinrich Benda , also Karl Benda (baptized on May 2, 1748 in Potsdam , † March 15, 1836 in Berlin ) was a German musician and composer.

Life

Handwriting Karl Bendas, 1785, p. 1/4.
poco Adagio , autograph 1785, pp. 2/4.

Karl Benda was the younger of the two adult sons of the violinist and composer Franz Benda . His godparents were the margraves Friedrich Heinrich (Brandenburg-Schwedt) and Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Brandenburg-Schwedt as well as the Russian ambassador Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk . Like his siblings Wilhelmine, Maria Carolina , Friedrich , Sophie Anna Henriette and Juliane , he received music lessons from his father Franz Benda. In 1766 Karl Benda was accepted into the court orchestra.

Karl Benda followed his father as a violin virtuoso, especially in the typical Benda adagio playing, to whom he is said to have been very similar in character, stature and physiognomy, but he was also a valued piano teacher: King Friedrich Wilhelm III was one of his students . as well as his brother Ludwig , who remained benevolently connected to him for a lifetime, as well as the composer and music teacher Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen and the singer and actor Seidel. The chamber singer Luise Rudorff (daughter of Rittmeister Friedrich Wilhelm Rudorff), who later became known in Weimar, was also Karl Benda's student; he experienced her in 1792 at the Weimar court theater when he visited his two sisters Wilhelmine and Maria Carolina. Karl Benda was also a répétiteur with the ballet of the Royal Opera Berlin . In 1802 he succeeded his uncle Joseph Benda in the position of concertmaster of the court orchestra. He was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge to the 3 golden keys .

family

In 1777 Karl Benda married a daughter of War Councilor Friedrich August Barth, with whom he had the son August Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand (1779–1861). On April 28, 1825, he was elevated to the status of hereditary nobility by the Bavarian king in the position of chamber director for the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. Wilhelm von Benda's descendants include the assessor, landowner and deputy Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Robert von Benda (1816–1899), the officer Hans Robert Heinrich von Benda (1856–1919) and the officer and conductor Hans Gustav Robert von Benda (1888–1972 ). The latter was the client for Franz Lorenz's biography The Benda family of musicians with documents and pictures from his private collection.

After the death of his first wife, Karl Benda married a daughter of the respected Potsdam cloth manufacturer Freytag, with whom he had the son Friedrich August Benda (1786-1854). This later also struck a higher civil service career and was a committed music lover on the board of several clubs, especially the Sing-Akademie .

See also

Works

  • Sinfonia in D major
  • Sonata in F major per il Violino e Basso c.
  • Six Adagios for the pianoforte, along with remarks on playing and performing the Adagio by Carl Benda, a retired Königl. Prussia. Kapellmeister

literature

  • Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in the past and present . (MGG). Second, revised edition. Person part 2: Bag-Bi. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, columns 1071 and 1074.
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, pp. 94-101.
  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Berhardt Friedrich Voigt, New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Volume 14, Verlag BF Voigt, 1838, pp. 259-260. (online at: books.google.de )
  • CF Von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present. Verlag Рипол Классик, 2012, ISBN 978-5-87315-668-9 , p. 38, (online at: books.google.de )
  • Vera Schwarz: Violin playing and violin music in the past and present: Report on the International Congress at the Institute for Performance Practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, from June 25 to July 2, 1972. Universal Edition, 1975, p. 36.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to Lorenz's biography, the first-born son Johann Christian Gottlieb in 1743 died as a toddler
  2. ^ Karl Benda's twin sister, who died in 1777, married to Pastor Franz Rudolph Becker
  3. ↑ According to the New Nekrolog der Deutschen he played for the king at the age of 14 and was immediately engaged
  4. ↑ As a true adagio specialist, Karl Benda was a role model for already successful musicians, such as B. the blind flautist Friedrich Ludwig Dulon . He wrote a detailed treatise on "Playing and Performing the Adagio", in Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung No. 48th of December 1, 1819 (online at: books.google.de )
  5. ^ Hans Michael Schletterer: Johann Friedrich Reichardt: his life and his works. Verlag JA Schlosser, Augsburg 1865, p. 101.
  6. ↑ She often appeared with Karl Benda's cousin, the singer Hermann Christian Benda , and was godmother (on behalf of the princely family) of his daughter Amalia Carolina Louisa and from 1798 wife of the poet Karl Ludwig von Knebel
  7. ↑ Lorenz biography, p. 95.
  8. ^ New Prussian Nobility Lexicon; Leipzig: Gebrüder Reichenbach 1836, p. 201.
  9. ^ Arrangement of compositions by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Capellmeister Johann Nepomuk Hummel , the King. Kammermusicus Jäger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Franz Lauska , Abbée Gelinek
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benda, Carl Hermann Heinrich (full name); Benda, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 2, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1836
Place of death Berlin