Heinrich Benda

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Heinrich Benda (baptized March 20, 1754 in Gotha ; † between 1795 and 1806 in Berlin ) was a German violinist . He was the second eldest son of the composer Georg Anton Benda .

Life

Heinrich Benda was baptized in the castle church of Gotha without a first name, the godfather was his mother's stepfather, the Gotha scholar Johann Heinrich Stuß , 1713-1717 also rector of the education department in Ilfeld .

Like his brother, who was only 18 months older, the later violinist and composer Friedrich Ludwig Benda , he too received his musical education from his Gotha relatives (father Georg Anton Benda, uncle Dismas Hattasch and aunt Anna Franziska Hattasch ).

In 1775 he became a member of the Seyler's Society , which had moved to Gotha after a theater fire in Weimar , and went as a violinist at the same time as his brother Friedrich Ludwig Benda as concertmaster on trips (Leipzig, Dresden, Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim, Cologne and Hanau).

After the Seylersche Gesellschaft dissolved in autumn 1779 due to financial difficulties, Friedrich Ludwig Benda went to Hamburg, Heinrich Benda finally to Berlin, where he became a member of the Döbbelin Theater in 1782 at the latest , and then of the National Theater .

In 1782 he married Christina Luise Polzin, the widow of the inn owner Johann Ludwig Döbbelin, brother of the actor and theater director Karl Theophil Döbbelin . After his marriage, Heinrich Benda was spoken of as “violinist and innkeeper”, “Coffetier Benda” and “Henrici”, whose inn was a popular meeting place for artists. In 1784 Heinrich Benda took his youngest brother Carl Ernst Eberhard Benda (1764-1814) into his home, who made his debut in 1785 with Döbbelin, whose stage was in the same building (Behrenstrasse). From 1786 his second youngest brother, the singer and actor Hermann Christian Benda (1759–1805) was also engaged in Berlin until he moved to Goethe's Weimar court theater in 1791.

The date of death of Heinrich Bendas is not known, at the time of his father's death in November 1795 he was still alive, when his youngest daughter married in January 1806 he was said to have died.

family

Heinrich Benda's four siblings have also had a career on German stages:

  • Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1752–1792), violin virtuoso a. Composer in Mannheim, Hamburg, Ludwigslust and Königsberg
  • Catharina Justina Benda (1757–1815), widowed Zimdar , married Blanchard, actress and singer, in Hamburg, Schleswig, most recently in Breslau for many years
  • Hermann Christian Benda (1759–1805), singer and actor, in Hamburg, Berlin, most recently at the Weimar court theater under Goethe
  • Carl Ernst Eberhard Benda (1764–1824), initially as an actor and singer in Berlin at the Döbbelin Theater, then for many years at the court theater there

literature

  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 2: Georg Anton Benda ), 1971, de Gruyter Berlin, ISBN 3-11-003568-5 , pages 57, 115, 129-131.

See also

References and comments

  1. ↑ see Lorenz biography, page 130
  2. ↑ [1] (ADB Johann Heinrich Stuss)
  3. ↑ Route not clearly understandable due to the risk of confusion with other Bendas
  4. ↑ Lorenz biography, pages 130 and 131
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benda, Henricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 20, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH between 1795 and 1806
Place of death Berlin