Fritz Bendix
Fritz Emil Bendix (born January 12, 1847 in Copenhagen ; † March 6, 1914 there ) was a Danish musician .
Life
He is the brother of the pianist Otto Bendix (1845-1904) and the composer and conductor Victor Bendix (1851-1926).
Bendix began his studies in 1864 and later turned increasingly to music, especially playing the cello . His teachers were Frederik Rauch and Franz Xaver Neruda in Copenhagen and Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden . From 1866 to 1871 he stayed in Germany and stayed in Meiningen and Kassel . He has also appeared as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles . From 1871 to 1906 he was a member of Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, since 1887 also orchestra director.
He wrote the children's song book Børnesange (1893) and his memoirs Af en Kapelmusikers Erindringer (1913). In 1884 he wrote an act for the play Efter Prøven performed at the Royal Theater . The play En Hustru appeared under the pseudonym Carsten Holst .
Fritz Bendix was the first Dane to purchase a painting by the painter Vincent van Gogh . This is a picture taken in the garden of the mental hospital in Saint-Rémy. Bendix wanted to sell the picture to the Copenhagen State Art Museum and the Oslo National Museum in 1910 , but both of them declined the offer.
Bendix was married twice. The first marriage to the German Anna Eugenie Heusinger (* around 1850-1940) had three children, Margarethe, Emanuel and Carl. In his second marriage he married Thora Bendix, née Sundberg (1863-1942), with whom he had another daughter.
Bendix died in his hometown of Copenhagen in 1914.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Birgitte Possing: Det kongelige Biblioteks Håndskriftafdeling, erhvervelser 1924-1987. Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995
- ↑ Et hjørne i Saint-Paul hospitalets have at vincentvangogh.dk, accessed on June 1, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendix, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holst, Carsten (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1914 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen , Denmark |