Franz Bendel was a German Bohemian pianist, composer, and teacher.
12 Facts About Franz Bendel
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Franz Bendel was a student of Franz Liszt for five years in Weimar.
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Franz Bendel was the author of over four hundred compositions, many of them for the piano, including one piano concerto.
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Franz Bendel was a son of an elementary school teacher.
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Franz Bendel had already emerged a composer by 1885, when Proksch performed a mass by him in Prague.
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In 1862, Franz Bendel settled in Berlin and became a lecturer at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst.
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Franz Bendel lived and worked there until his death, only interrupted by several small concert tours, such as Prague in 1863, which were praised in the press.
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Franz Bendel was even able to participate as a concert pianist at Patrick Gilmore's National Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1872.
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Franz Bendel was under an engagement with the Steinways for a series of eighty concerts in 1874, but typhoid fever caused his death after four days illness in July 1873.
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Franz Bendel set text by Louise Strantz to music in his Wiegenlied.
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Franz Bendel's teaching under Proksch kept a remnant of inclination for seriousness and solidity in his composition.
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Similar to the nocturnes of John Field, Franz Bendel wrote many Stimmungsbilder.