German Violinists - Franz Benda, Alois Kottmann, Paul Godwin, Augustin Hadelich, Anna Katharina Kranzlein, Marcus Tanneberger, Renate Eggebrecht, Michael Wieck, Catya Mare, Ignaz Franzl, Georg Kulenkampff, Anna Phoebe, Ferdinand Franzl (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Franz Benda, Alois Kottmann, Paul Godwin, Augustin Hadelich, Anna Katharina Kranzlein, Marcus Tanneberger, Renate Eggebrecht, Michael Wieck, Catya Mare, Ignaz Franzl, Georg Kulenkampff, Anna Phoebe, Ferdinand Franzl, Ji-In Cho, Johann Georg Pisendel, Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman, Johann Vierdanck, Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert, Ferdinand David, Frederic Ernest Fesca, Saschko Gawriloff, Carl Ferdinand Becker, Michael Mann, Andreas Romberg, Helmut Zacharias, Philip A. Herfort, Jean Becker, Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, Thomas Brandis, Michael Karoli, Christoph Koncz, Walter Levin, Valentin Gregor, Alexander Ritter, Richard Barth, Johann Adam Birkenstock, Leopold August Abel, Johann Fischer, Hubert Buchberger, Carl Eberwein, Anton Ferdinand Titz, Franz Anton Ries, Joseph Kreutzer, Karl Wendling, Wilhelm Melcher, Karl Schroder I, Johann Wilde, Marianne Scharwenka, Stefan Krah. Excerpt: Franz Benda (Czech: ) (baptised 22 November 1709 - 7 March 1786) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Ji i Antonin Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Benda was born in Bohemia at the town of Stare Benatky. Benda himself claimed to have been born 25 November, but baptism records show he was baptised three days earlier, on 22 November. His actual date of birth seems not to have been recorded, but it was probably no more than a day or two earlier than 22 November. Benda became the founder of a German school of violin playing. In his youth he was a chorister at 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 thence to Vienna, where he pursued his...