About
František Benda (November 25, 1709 – March 7, 1786) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Early in the eighteenth century František Benda was born in Bohemia at the village of Staré Benártky, and 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.
Discography
Flute Concertos
Album2016Violin Sonatas
Album2012Violin Sonatas (with original ornamentation)
Album2011La flûte dans les cours européennes au XVIIIe siècle
Album2007Flute Concertos
Album2002
Viola and Violin Concertos
Album2002Bach / Benda / Haydn / Mozart / Rosetti / Hindemith / Milhaud / Roussel
Album2002Violin Concerto in G major / Violin Concertos in D major and D minor
Album2001Violin Concertos
Album1995Stamitz: Flute Concerto in G major / Benda: Flute Concerto in E minor
Album1986
