Hans von Benda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hans von Benda

German conductor

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1888

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1972

Profession: conductor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Hans von Benda

  • Hans von Benda (22 November 1888, in Strasbourg – 13 August 1972, in Berlin) was a German conductor. A direct descendant of the eighteenth-century composer Franz Benda, he operated in the shadow of better-known Teutonic maestri of his generation, notably Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, and Hans Knappertsbusch.
  • After serving as musical director of Berlin Radio from 1926 to 1934, Benda became (1935) artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, during Furtwängler's tenure as chief conductor.
  • He held this post until 1939.
  • Meanwhile, he conducted the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, which he had founded in 1932, and with which he toured Australia, South America and Asia as well as Europe.
  • He was married to Karin Rosander, a Finnish violinist. Unlike Furtwängler and Knappertsbusch (or Klemperer, who had fled Germany shortly after Hitler gained power), Benda joined the National Socialist Party [1], possibly through fear that the regime would regard his Czech lineage as insufficiently Aryan.
  • That his party card brought a certain amount of foreign obloquy on his head is indicated by the fact that (according to John L.
  • Holmes' Conductors on Record) a pre-war recording Benda conducted of music by Gluck was issued in America without his name on the label.
  • After World War II, Benda gave evidence during Furtwängler's denazification proceedings, avowing that Furtwängler had protected Jews from official persecution.[2] Having worked in Spain from 1948 to 1952, Benda was subsequently employed at Radio Free Berlin (1954-1958). Benda had a long recording career, lasting from the 1930s until 1968.
  • Composers in his large discography include Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart père and fils, Schubert, Dvorák, Respighi, C.
  • P.
  • E.
  • Bach, Frederick the Great, Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Joachim Quantz, Carl Heinrich Graun, and his own collateral ancestor Georg Benda.
  • His conducting on disc tended towards a hefty, straightforward style wholly at odds with Furtwängler's and Knappertsbusch's improvisational unpredictability.

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