Background
Benda was born on 30th June 1722 in Jung-bunzlau, Bohemia. He was a third son of Hans Georg Benda and brother of Franz Benda.
Benda was born on 30th June 1722 in Jung-bunzlau, Bohemia. He was a third son of Hans Georg Benda and brother of Franz Benda.
He studied at the Piarist Gymnasium (grammar school) in Kosmanos and at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Gitschin from 1735 to 1742. He also studied violinn under his father.
In 1742-1748 Benda was a chamber-musician at Berlin and then at Gotha, where he became court Kapellmeister in 1748 and in I764 went to Italy, returning 1766. He remained in Gotha till 1788, producing about 10 operas, operettas, melodramas. Then he resigned, lived in Hamburg, Vienna, and other towns, finally settling in Kostritz.
Ariadne auf Naxos
(Libretto by Johann Christian Brandes (de), melodrama, Gotha.)
1775Xindo riconosciuto
(Libretto by Giovanni Andrea Galletti, opera seria, Gotha.)
1765Der Jahrmarkt (Der Dorfjahrmarkt/Lukas und Bärbchen)
(Libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, Singspiel, Gotha.)
1775Il buon marito
(libretto by Galletti, Intermezzo, Gotha.)
1766Das tartarische Gesetz
(Libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, Mannheim.)
1787Medea
(Libretto by Gotter, melodrama, Leipzig.)
1775Walder
(Libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, Gotha.)
1776Romeo und Julie
(Libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, Gotha.)
1776Der Holzhauer oder Die drey Wünsche
(Libretto by Gotter, Singspiel, Gotha.)
1778Pygmalion
(Libretto by Gotter, melodrama, Gotha.)
1779Philon und Theone, revised as Almansor und Nadine
(Unknown librettist, Gotha.)
1779Il nuove maestro di capella
(Intermezzo, Gotha.)
1766Georg Benda was a third son of Hans Georg Benda and brother of Franz Benda.
Franz benda was a composer and violinist.
