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Benda, Jan Jiri
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Biographical sketch of the patriarch of the noted Bohemian-German family of composers and musicians. Includes Naxos discography.
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Composer Benda family has occupied an important and continuing place in music in Germany for some 250 years. The founder of the musical dynasty, Jan Jirí Benda, was born in 1686 in a village in Bohemia and combined the trades of...