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BENDL, KAREL

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BENDL, KAREL or KARL (1838-1897), Bohemian composer, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:April 1838 at See also:Prague. He studied at the See also:organ school, and in 1858 had already composed a number of small choral See also:works. In 1861 his Poletuje holubice won a See also:prize and at once became a favourite with the See also:local choral See also:societies. In 1864 Bendl went to See also:Brussels, where for a See also:short See also:time he held the See also:post of second conductor of the See also:opera. After visiting See also:Amsterdam and See also:Paris he returned to Prague. Here in 1865 he was appointed conductor of the choral society known as Hlahoe, and he held the post until 1879, when See also:Baron Dervies engaged his services for his private See also:band. Bendl's first opera Lejla was successfully produced in 1868. It was followed by Bretislav a Jitka (187o), Stary Zenich, a comic opera (1883), Karel Skreta (1883), Dite Tabora, a prize opera (1892), and Matki Mila (1891). Other operas by Bendl are Indicka princezna, Cernohorci, a prize opera, and the two operas Carovny Kvet and Gina. His ballad Svanda dudak acquired much popularity; he published a See also:mass in D See also:minor for male voices and another mass for a mixed See also:choir; two songs to See also:Ave Maria; a See also:violin See also:sonata and a See also:string quartet in F; and a quantity of songs and choruses, many of which have come to be regarded as See also:national possessions of Bohemia. Bendl died on the loth of See also:September 1897 at Prague.

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