Victor Bendix

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Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade.{{cite book |last1=Elson |first1=Arthur |title=Modern Composers of Europe: Being an Account of the Most Recent Musical Progress in the Various European Nations, with Some Notes on Their History, and Critical and Biographical Sketches of the Contemporary Musical Leaders in Each Country |date=1904 |publisher=L.C. Page |page=240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PErAAAAYAAJ |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}{{cite web|title=Review of Recording of Bendix Symphonies|

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He studied at the conservatory of music at Copenhagen, then newly founded, from 1867 to 1869. He studied piano under August Winding and composition under Niels W. Gade. He visited Germany and other countries abroad; his compositions show the influence of modern German romanticism.{{cite web |title=BENDIX, VICTOR EMANUEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2917 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com |access-date=10 August 2024}}

He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix.

In 1879, he married the writer and philanthropist Baroness Rigmor Stampe.{{cite web |author=Vammen |first=Tinne |author-link=Tinne Vammen |title=Rigmor Stampe Bendix (1850 - 1923) |url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1611/origin/170/ |access-date=8 July 2020 |publisher=Kvinfo |language=da}}

Selected works

Symphonies
Symphony no. 1, op. 16, "Fjældstigning" in C major (1882)Smith (2002), p. 60.{{cite web|title=Danacord List of Bendix Symphonies|url=https://www.danacord.dk/frmsets/records/436-437-r.html|

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Symphony no. 2, op. 20 "Sommerklange fra Sydrusland" in D major (1888)
Symphony no. 3, op. 25 in A minor (1895)
Symphony no. 4, op. 30 in D minor (1904-5) (US premiere? by the Boston Symphony, April 26, 1907 conducted by Karl Muck)from a list inaccurately described as [http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/about-us/historyarchives/archival-collection/world-premieres-at-the-bso/world-premieres-the-1900s.aspx/MobileContentPage world premieres by the BSO in the 1900s] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331071605/http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/about-us/historyarchives/archival-collection/world-premieres-at-the-bso/world-premieres-the-1900s.aspx/MobileContentPage |date=2016-03-31 }} - which since it lists e.g. the 1908 Bischoff performance too, though that work was premiered in 1906.
Concertante works
Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 17 (1884){{OCLC|255249240}}.
Orchestral works
Dance suite in A, op. 29 (1903) (given a performance conducted by Bendix in 1921)
Chamber music
Piano Trio in A major, op. 12 (1877)Rłllum-Larsen (2002), p. 246.
Piano Sonata in G minor, op. 26 (published 1901){{OCLC|62280347}}.
Intermezzo for piano (published 1916)

Notes

References

Smith, Frederick Key (2002). {{Google books|CAxn7Cp41z4C|Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium}}. Greenwood Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0-275-97399-9}}.
Rłllum-Larsen, Claus; Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark) (2002). {{Google books|LjKbakQDsXUC|Impulser i Københavns koncertrepertoire, 1900-1935: studier i præsentationen af ny, isæ udenlandsk instrumentalmusik}}. Museum Tusculanum Press. {{ISBN|87-7289-656-6}}.