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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $200.00 |
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OTTO BENDIX - PIANIST |
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Scarce autographed Hastings of Boston cabinet photograph of the Danish American pianist and student of Gade, Kullak and Liszt. Bendix (1845-1904) was a child prodigy, playing at the age of 9 with the Royal Philhamonic in Copenhagen. He was first taken to study with Antoine Rée, who he outgrew quickly and was send to study with Niels Gade, then the Director of the Royal Danish Conservatory. His progress was so rapid, that he was sent to Berlin to study with Kullak, where he remained for two years. He embarked upon a solo career at that point under the patronage of Kullak, however, he spent the first three Summers in Weimar with Franz Liszt. His talent was noticed by the Duke of Weimar at the matinee recitals he gave in the town. He returned to Copenhagen triumphant as a performer and was appointed head of the piano department of the Royal Conservatory. He also played the oboe in the Royal Opera House. In 1880 he travelled to the U.S. making his debut in Boston at Chickering’s. Bendix then became a touring favorite and also the most popular professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He died in San Francisco where a had repaired for the last few years of his life to head the “Otto Bendix School of Music.” Bendix died at the age of 59. |
