Friedrich Benda

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (born July 15, 1745 in Potsdam , † June 19, 1814 in Berlin ) was a German chamber musician and composer . He comes from the Benda family of musicians .

Life

Friedrich Benda's godparents on the occasion of his baptism were - represented by court officials and ladies-in-waiting - the king and two of his sons as well as the queen and queen mother, which shows the importance of his father as Prime Minister Violon de Chambre de la Majesté de Roi de Prusse at the time . Friedrich Benda was the older of the two adult sons of the composer Franz Benda , from whom he, like his siblings Wilhelmine, Maria Carolina , Carl and Juliane , received his first musical lessons. He later became a student of the Berlin music theorist Johann Philipp Kirnberger . At the age of 20 Friedrich Benda was accepted as a violinist in the court orchestra, in which he held a leading position until 1810. But he was not only a recognized violin virtuoso, but was also admired as a pianist, organist and composer. Together with the violinist and concertmaster Ernst (Johann Christoph) Schick (1756–1815), the cellist Jean-Balthasar Tricklir and the musician Ho (f) fmann, Friedrich Benda took part in the so-called quartet soirées in Berlin in 1783. The string quartet around Schick also performed in Hamburg, this form of music event was initiated by him around 1782 and was an innovation in so far as the concerts took place in the concert hall for the first time.

Like his brother Carl Benda, Friedrich Benda also took part in the so-called lovers' concerts in the Corsicaischer Saale , where he performed the Singspiel Orpheus (which he called "German opera") in 1788 in concert form, as did Alceste . With his works, Friedrich Benda wanted to create a counterbalance to the prevailing Italian musical style and thereby significantly impaired the goodwill of King Friedrich Wilhelm II (Prussia) . When the state treasury was also exhausted due to the war of 1806/7, Friedrich Benda finally received only half of the pension he was originally entitled to in 1810. Due to increasing hearing loss, he was unable to earn additional income through music lessons, so that Carl Benda regularly supported him and his family financially, and thanks to his good relationship with the royal family, he also successfully campaigned for this aid to be continued in the event of his premature death. However, Friedrich Benda died in 1814, 22 years before his caring brother Carl Benda.

Cover sheet for concerts from 1780

See also

Works (selection)

  • 1785: Alceste , Singspiel
  • 1806: The Flower Girl , Singspiel
  • 1787: Orpheus , Singspiel
  • 1784: Pygmalion , cantata
  • The graces , cantata
  • The Disciples at the Tomb of the Risen One , Oratory
  • Symphonies, concerts, sonatas

Because of several Bendas with the first name Friedrich , the authorship could be unclear, made more difficult by abbreviations such as F. Benda and Fr. Benda, which could also indicate Franz Benda.

literature

  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, pages 86-94.
  • The music in past and present (MGG), second, revised edition, edited by Ludwig Finscher, person part 2, Bag-Bi, Bärenreiter Kassel, 1999, column 1070.
  • CF Von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present , Verlag Рипол Классик, ISBN 5873156689 , 9785873156689, p. 43f, at Google Books

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Lettering under Franz Benda's portrait of Joachim Martin Falbe in Lorenz's biography
  2. ↑ According to Lorenz's biography, the first-born son Johann Christian Gottlieb in 1743 died as a toddler
  3. ↑ Joh. Friedrich Reichardt in Berlinische Musikalische Zeitung with Lorenz p. 86
  4. ^ Studies on the History of the String Quartet: The Origin of the Classical String Quartet. From the preliminary forms to the foundation by Joseph Haydn p. 268 Ernst Schick
  5. ↑ Tricklir in German Biographical Encyclopedia 10: Thies - Zykan, Volume 10
  6. ↑ according to Lorenz's biography p. 86, but without citing the source. The participation of Friedrich WH Benda is mentioned in The Development of the German Concert Criticism: in the Spiegel of the Leipziger Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, 1798-1848 , page 56, [1] , for 1782 in Hamburg, other sources mention Georg Anton Bendas for the cast in Hamburg Son Friedrich Ludwig Benda : z. B. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , p. 307 and Studies on the History of the String Quartet: The Origin of the Classical String Quartet. From the preliminary forms to the foundation by Joseph Haydn p. 268 . It is unclear whether the two Benda cousins ​​with the first name Friedrich were confused or whether they were actually both temporarily members of the quartet.
  7. ^ History of music and concerts in Hamburg from the 14th century to the present by Josef Sittard, pp. 129f
  8. ↑ Louis Schneider: History of the Opera and the Royal Opera House in Berlin p. 220 and Gerhard Wahnrau: Berlin, City of Theaters: Der Chronik, Volume 1 , p. 230
  9. ↑ see Lorenz's biography, page 87f
  10. ↑ ibid, page 86
  11. ↑ Audio sample: 3rd Sonata in G major (Allegro, cantabile, scherzando), Helene Schulthess (flute), duration 09:40
  12. ↑ see MGG columns 1071 and 1073
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benda, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1814
Place of death Berlin