Ben’dl

(bént’-’l), K., Prague, April 16, 1838—Sept. 20, 1897; important Czech composer; pupil of BlaZok and Pitsch, at Prague; chorus-master, Amsterdam. (1864); 1866, cond. Prague choral society, ‘‘Hlahol’’; composed Czech operas incl. ‘‘Dite Tdbora’” (Child of the Camp), 1892 (3 acts); given at Prague; 3 ma es, cantatas, an overture, a ‘‘ Dithyramb,” “Slavonic Rhapsody,” for orch., etc. Ben’edict, Sir Julius, Stuttgart, Nov. 27, 1804—London, June 5, 1885; son of a Jewish banker; pupil of Abeille, Hummel, and Weber, 1825 at Naples, where his first opera was prod. 1820, without succe ; his next (Stuttgart, 1830) was not a succe ; settled in London as pf.-teacher and concert giver; 1836, cond. opera buffa; 1837 at Drury Lane, there his first English opera, “‘The Gypsy’s Warning,” was prod. (1838); he accompanied Jenny Lind to America, then cond. at Her Majesty’s Th., and Drury Lane; 1859 at Covent Garden, and ‘‘Monday Popular Concerts’’; cond. also Norwich festivals, and (1876-80) the Liverpool Philharmonic; knighted in 1871; composed 11 operas; 2 or a to trios, ‘‘St. Cecilia” (1866), and ‘St, Peter’? (1870); 2 symphonies, 2 pf.concertos, etc.; wrote a biog. of Weber.