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Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade.
He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix.
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Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 17 (1884)
Manuscript copy made by Kai von Müller, 1919
I. Allegro moderato (0:00)
II. Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto (16:19)
III. Allegro vivace (26:59)
Oleg Marshev, piano and the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Aeschbacher
Bendix's work is considered one of the pinnacles of Danish Romantic music, the most virtuoso instrumental concerto of this era . Its style, like Bendix's performance style as a pianist, has its roots in the period of the Danish musician's studies with Franz Liszt in 1881. Modern specialists trace Bendix's concerto primarily to the German Romantic tradition, dating back to Franz Schubert via Johannes Brahms and Joachim Raff ; the middle section is particularly noted, combining features of traditional adagio and scherzo, as in several concertos by Henri Litolff. The return of themes from the first two sections in the finale is also reminiscent of the cyclical form of César Franck.
During the composer's lifetime, the concerto was performed by the composer himself; critics, in particular, noted the energetic performance of the 70-year-old Bendix, who played his own concerto as part of the Northern Music Days in Helsinki in 1921. Bendix's wife Dagmar Bendix and his student Henrik Knudsen also performed as soloists in the concerto . Subsequently, the concerto, along with other works by Bendix, was forgotten and dropped out of the performing repertoire. The credit for reviving interest in this work by Bendix goes to Oleg Marshev , who included the concerto in his repertoire and released a recording of it in 2006 - used in this video - with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Matthias Eschbacher, which received high praise
Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade.
He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix.
Please support my channel:
ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 17 (1884)
Manuscript copy made by Kai von Müller, 1919
I. Allegro moderato (0:00)
II. Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto (16:19)
III. Allegro vivace (26:59)
Oleg Marshev, piano and the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Aeschbacher
Bendix's work is considered one of the pinnacles of Danish Romantic music, the most virtuoso instrumental concerto of this era . Its style, like Bendix's performance style as a pianist, has its roots in the period of the Danish musician's studies with Franz Liszt in 1881. Modern specialists trace Bendix's concerto primarily to the German Romantic tradition, dating back to Franz Schubert via Johannes Brahms and Joachim Raff ; the middle section is particularly noted, combining features of traditional adagio and scherzo, as in several concertos by Henri Litolff. The return of themes from the first two sections in the finale is also reminiscent of the cyclical form of César Franck.
During the composer's lifetime, the concerto was performed by the composer himself; critics, in particular, noted the energetic performance of the 70-year-old Bendix, who played his own concerto as part of the Northern Music Days in Helsinki in 1921. Bendix's wife Dagmar Bendix and his student Henrik Knudsen also performed as soloists in the concerto . Subsequently, the concerto, along with other works by Bendix, was forgotten and dropped out of the performing repertoire. The credit for reviving interest in this work by Bendix goes to Oleg Marshev , who included the concerto in his repertoire and released a recording of it in 2006 - used in this video - with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Matthias Eschbacher, which received high praise
