Max Bendix

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Max Bendix (born March 28, 1866 in Detroit , Michigan , † December 6, 1945 in Chicago ) was an American violinist and conductor.

Bendix performed as a musical child prodigy at the age of eight. In 1878, at the age of twelve, he performed at the Cincinnati May Festival under the direction of Theodore Thomas , who accepted him in his orchestra the following year. In 1880 he was concertmaster of the Cincinnati Orchestra , around 1883–84 of the McCall Opera Company and the Germania Orchestra of Philadelphia . In the 1885–86 season he was principal violinist at the Metropolitan Opera under Anton Seidl and concertmaster of Frank Van der Stucken's Arion Society of New York .

Before and after studying in Europe in 1889, Bendix worked again with Theodore Thomas. 1897–98 he went on a concert tour through the USA with the violinists Eugène Ysaÿe and Henri Marteau , the cellist Jean Gerardy and the pianist Aimé Lachaume . In 1899 he founded the Bendix String Quartet with Eugene Boegner (second violin), Ottokar Novacek (viola) and Leo Schulz (cello).

In the 1904–05 season, Bendix was - again under the direction of Van der Stuckens - concertmaster of the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. From 1905 he also worked here as a conductor. In 1907 he joined Cleofonte Campanini's Manhattan Opera Company as concertmaster and conductor . From 1919 he conducted the People's Philharmonic Orchestra in San Francisco , which consisted of musicians who had separated from the San Francisco Symphony . Bendix also worked as a violin teacher. His best known student was Arthur Judson .

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SURNAME Bendix, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1945
Place of death Chicago