Benda F. - Symphonies

František Benda (1709–1786), the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, was a Czech violinist and compoesr. He spent and  worked for much of his life in Germany at the court of Frederick the Great. 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.He became the founder of a German school of violin playing. His works contain above all symphonies, violin concertos and sonatas.

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