Joseph Benda

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Joseph Benda
Benda birth house, built in 1706/07

Joseph Benda (baptized May 7, 1724 in Alt-Benatek , Bohemia; † February 22, 1804 in Berlin ) was a Bohemian musician in the Benda family .

Life

Joseph Benda was the fifth son of the linen weaver and musician Hans Georg Benda and his wife Dorothea (1686–1762), née Brixi, daughter of the village cantor Heinrich Brixi in Skalsko . Benda's older brothers Franz and Johann Georg were already violinists in the court orchestra of Friedrich II when he was introduced to him in 1742 during the First Silesian War in the winter quarters at Lissa Castle. He immediately sent 18-year-old Joseph to Potsdam for further training, where Franz Benda was to take care of further musical training, and in the same year Joseph Benda was accepted as a violinist in the court orchestra. The parents, pressed for reasons of faith, were able to move to Potsdam with their children Viktor (who ran a linen weaving mill together with his father, which was then resumed in the Bohemian Quarter of Potsdam), Georg Anton and Anna Franziska von Böhmen , through the mediation of Friedrich II leave.

Joseph Benda Amanuensis (deputy, "right hand") was the concertmaster of his brother Franz Benda, who was gradually ailing, and after his death in 1786 he was also his successor. He was followed in office in 1802 by his nephew Carl Benda , Franz Benda's youngest son. Joseph Benda was u. a. friends with Johann Philipp Kirnberger , in whose correspondence he is often mentioned. The music journalist Charles Burney described several encounters with Joseph Benda in Berlin.

Berlin, Brüderstraße with St. Petri around 1800, colored copper engraving

Benda was involved in the so-called lovers' concerts founded by his eldest son well into his old age and on December 22nd, 1793, he played a gala concert in the traditional Corsica hall opposite Monbijou Castle as part of the extensive celebrations on the occasion of Crown Princess Luise's entry . Joseph Benda lived with his family at Brüderstraße 19 at the Petrikirche, in whose church register his death is entered for February 22, 1804. The two sons Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda (1749–1785) and Carl Friedrich Franz Benda (1754–1816) were also violinists in the royal court orchestra, and their godparents were members of the royal family.

See also

Works (if known)

  • Études de violon ou caprices (together with Franz Benda)
  • Sonata in A major for V. and Basso

literature

  • Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). Second, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, Person Part 2, Bag – Bi, column 1070.
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, pp. 69-74.

Web links

Commons : Josef Benda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, p. 3
  2. ↑ Her cousin Simon Brixi was the choirmaster of the Prague parish church of St. Martin, whose son was the composer, organist and cathedral music director in Prague, Franz Xaver Brixi
  3. ↑ Benda In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  4. ↑ Diary of a musical journey , 1770 (no page numbers)
  5. ↑ Walter Schimmel-Falknau: Unter den Linden: Coming and Going; a series of scenes in German history . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1963, p. 81
  6. ↑ audio sample
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-German musician
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 7, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Benatek , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1804
Place of death Berlin