František Benda (1709-1786)
- Concerto (G-Dur). per | il | Flauto. concertato. | accompagnato [da] |
Due Violini | Viola | et | Basso, LeeB 2.11
Performers: Neil McLaren (flute); Cambridge Baroque Camerata
Further info: Rare Baroque Flute Concertos
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Bohemian violinist and composer, son of Jan Jiří Benda (1686-1757). His
autobiography, written in 1763, presents details of his early training
and the musicians with whom he associated during his long career; the
documentation of his own activities and references to his associates
make this one of the most frequently cited documents of the era. In his
youth Benda was a chorister in Prague and afterward in the Chapel Royal
at Dresden. At the same time he began to study the violin, and soon
joined a company of strolling musicians who attended fetes, fairs, etc.
At eighteen years of age Benda abandoned this wandering life and
returned to Prague, going to Vienna, where he pursued his study of the
violin under Johann Gottlieb Graun, a pupil of Tartini. After two years
he was appointed chapel master at Warsaw. In 1732, he entered the
service of Frederick the Great, then crown prince of Prussia, with whom
he remained the rest of his life. He was a member of the crown prince's
orchestra, and later became concertmaster to the king.[1] He played
about 50,000 concertos over a period of forty years. At Benda's request,
Frederick allowed his parents and siblings to move to Potsdam when, as
Protestants, they suffered religious persecution in Bohemia. Benda was a
master of all the difficulties of violin playing, and the rapidity of
his execution and the mellow sweetness of his highest notes were
unequalled. He had many pupils and wrote a number of works, chiefly
exercises and studies for the violin. Benda died in the Nowawes, a small
colony near Potsdam set up by Frederick the Great to house Protestant
refugees fleeing religious persecution in Bohemia. Of his six children
who survived infancy, four became musicians: Maria Carolina Benda
(1742-1820), Friedrich Benda (1745-1814), Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda
(1748-1836) and Juliane Benda (1752-1783).
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