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BENDA , the name of a See also:family of See also:German musicians, of whom the most important is Georg (d. 1795), who was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of his See also:elder' See also:brother See also:Franz (1709-1786), Concertmeister in See also:Berlin. Georg Benda was a famous clavier player and oboist, but his See also:chief See also:interest for See also:modern musical See also:history lies in his melodramas. Being a far more solid musician than See also:Rousseau he earns the See also:title of the musical See also:pioneer of that See also:art-See also:form (i.e. the See also:accompaniment of spoken words by illustrative See also:music) in a sense which cannot be claimed for Rousseau's earlier See also:Pygmalion. Benda's first See also:melodrama, See also:Ariadne auf See also:Naxos, was written in 1774 after his return from a visit to See also:Italy. He was a voluminous composer, whose See also:works (instrumental and dramatic) were enthusiastically taken up by the See also:aristocracy in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Mozart. Mozart's See also:imagination was much fired by Benda's new vehicle for dramatic expression, and in 1978 he wrote to his See also:father with the greatest See also:enthusiasm about a project for composing a duodrama on the See also:model of Benda's Ariadne auf Naxos and See also:Medea, both of which he considered excellent and always carried about with him. He concluded at the time that that was the way the problems of operatic recitative should be solved, or rather shelved, but the only specimen he has himself produced is the wonderful melodrama in his unfinished operetta, Zaide, written in 1780.
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