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(Ga-ôrg Ben’-da) 1722–95 Bohemian composer Born at Staré Benátky in Bohemia into a family of musicians (his brother Franz was a violinist and composer at Frederick the Great’s court in Berlin), Benda went to Germany as a young man and spent most of his working career as Kapellmeister at Gotha; he retired in 1778. He is remembered chiefly for his German operas ...

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1722–95, Czech Georg Benda was a Czech composer who produced several stage dramas for the ducal court at Gotha, where he was Kapellmeister. His first – and only – Italian opera was Xindo riconosciuto (‘Xindo Remembered’, 1765). Subsequent works were distinctly innovative. In this phase of his career, Benda turned first to German ‘duodramas’, also known as ‘melodramas’. ...

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hard to believe how many drafts and variants it underwent in the composer’s sketchbooks before Beethoven settled upon its final form. Introduction | Classical Era | Classical Personalities | Georg Benda | Classical Era | Classical ...

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Tarare (1787), produced in Paris. Gluck turned it down, and it was subsequently set to music by Antonio Salieri (1750–1825). Introduction | Classical Era | Opera Personalities | Georg Benda | Classical Era | Opera ...

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words. One of the most eminent Singspiel composers was Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), who helped establish the German national form of the genre, and another was the Czech Georg Benda (1722–95), who was based in Berlin. Opéra comique provided Singspiel with its lyrical, comic and sentimental content and promoted its use of folk harmonies and rhythms. By contrast, ...

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and shipwrecks and gothic dungeons. Other manifestations of the same spirit are found in the pseudo-primitive Ossian ballads. In music, the melodramas popular in northern Germany, by Georg Benda (1722–95) in particular, show the agitation and terror typical of the movement. A strong case can be argued for Haydn being influenced by Sturm und Drang in his symphonies ...