Christian Benda, Suk Chamber Orchestra - Jan Jiří Benda & František Benda: Violin Concertos (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 54:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553902 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 54:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553902 | Recorded: 1999
The Benda family has occupied an important and continuing place in music in Germany for some 250 years. The founder of the musical dynasty, Jan Jiří Benda, was born in 1686 in a village in Bohemia and combined the trades of weaver and musician. He married Dorota Brixi, a member of the Skalsko branch of a distinguished family of Czech musicians, and five of their six children became musicians, working in Germany. There the eldest son of the family, František, composer of some eighty violin sonatas and fifteen concertos, entered the service of the Prussian Crown Prince, continuing as Konzertmeister after the latter's accession to the throne as Frederick the Great.