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Franz Benda

1709 - 1786

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Franz Benda (Czech: František Benda; baptised 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Benda is the 292nd most popular composer (up from 317th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 155th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Benda ranks 292 out of 1,451. Before him are Jacques Ibert, Reynaldo Hahn, Emmanuel Chabrier, Clemens Krauss, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. After him are Ichirou Mizuki, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Georg Böhm, Gioseffo Zarlino, Antonio Soler, and Louis-Claude Daquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Franz Benda ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Samuel Johnson, Jacques de Vaucanson, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. After him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Johann Georg Gmelin, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans. Among people deceased in 1786, Franz Benda ranks 6. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Peter III of Portugal, and Maurice Benyovszky. After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Gaspar de Portolá, Tokugawa Ieharu, and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Benda ranks 142 out of 1,200. Before him are Adalbert Stifter (1805), Rudolf Slánský (1901), Eduard Hanslick (1825), G. W. Pabst (1885), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), and Alfred Kubin (1877). After him are Michael Czerny (1946), Barbara Bouchet (1943), Antonín Zápotocký (1884), Bedřich Hrozný (1879), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), and Jan Kubiš (1913).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Benda ranks 13. Before him are Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), and Eduard Hanslick (1825). After him are Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Julius Fučík (1872), Georg Benda (1722), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), and Zdeněk Fibich (1850).

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