See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• JULIUS

JULIUS See also:

• BENEDICT (BENEDICTUS)
• SIR JULIUS BENEDICT (1804-1885)

BENEDICT (1804-1885)  , musical composer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart on the 27th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1804 . He was the son of a Jewish banker, and learnt See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition from See also:

• HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK (1778-1837)

Hummel at See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar and See also:

• WEBER, CARL MARIA FRIEDRICH ERNEST VON (1786–1826)
• WEBER, WILHELM EDUARD (1804-1891)

Weber at See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden; with the latter he enjoyed for three years an intimacy like that of a son, and it was Weber who introduced him in See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna to See also:

• BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827)

Beethoven on the 5th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1823 . In the same See also:

• YEAR

year he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Karnthnerthor See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre at Vienna, and two years later (in 1825) he became Kapellmeister of the See also:

• SAN

San Carlo theatre at See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples . Here his first See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, Giacinta ed Ernesto, was brought out in 1829, and another, written for his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, I Portoghesi in See also:

• GOA

Goa, was given there in 183o; neither of these was a See also:

• GREAT

great success, and in 1834 he went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, leaving it in 1835 at the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of See also:

• MALIBRAN, MARIE

Malibran for See also:

• LONDON

London, where he spent the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his See also:

• LIFE

life . In 1836 he was given the conductorship of an operatic enterprise at the See also:

• LYCEUM

Lyceum Theatre, and brought out a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short opera, Un See also:

• ANNO, or HANNO, SAINT (c. Toro—ro75)

anno ed un giorno, previously given in Naples . In 1838 he became conductor of the See also:

• ENGLISH

English opera at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane during the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM (1808-1870)

Balfe's great popularity; his own operas produced there were The Gipsy's Warning (1838), The See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

Bride of See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice (1843), and The Crusaders (1846) . In 1848 he conducted Mendelssohn's See also:

• ELIJAH (a Hebrew name meaning " Yah[weh] is God ")

Elijah at See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, for the first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of Jenny See also:

• LIND, JENNY

Lind in See also:

• ORATORIO

oratorio, and in 1850 he went to See also:

• AMERICA

America as the accompanist on that See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer's tour . On his return in 1852 he became musical conductor under Mapleson's management at Her See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's theatre (and afterwards at Drury Lane), and in the same year conductor of the See also:

• HARMONIC

Harmonic See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union . See also:

• BENEDICT (BENEDICTUS)
• BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (1804-1885)

Benedict wrote recitatives for the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of an See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian version of Weber's See also:

• OBERON (Fr. Alberon, Auberon, Ger. Alberich, i.e. rich, Goth. reiks, " ruler "—cf. Lat. rex—and O.H. and M.H. Ger. pl. elbi, elbe, " elves," pl. alp)

Oberon in x86o . In the same year was produced his beautiful See also:

• CANTATA (Italian for a song or story set to music)

cantata Undine at the See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich festival, in which See also:

• CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

Clara See also:

• NOVELLO, VINCENT (1781-1861)

Novello appeared in public for the last See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, His best-known opera, The See also:

• LILY

Lily of See also:

• KILLARNEY

Killarney, written on the subject of See also:

• DION

Dion See also:

• BOUCICAULT, DION (1822–1890)

Boucicault's See also:

• PLAY

play Colleen Bawn to a libretto by See also:

• OXENFORD, JOHN (1812—1877)

Oxenford, was produced at Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden in 1862 . His operetta, The Bride of See also:

• SONG

Song, was brought out there in 1864 . St See also:

• CECILIA, SAINT

Cecilia, an oratorio, was performed at the Norwich festival in 1886; St See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter at the See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham festival of 187o; Graziella, a cantata, was given at the Birmingham festival of 1882, and in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1883 was produced in operatic See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form at the Crystal See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace .

Here also a See also:

• SYMPHONY

symphony by him was given in 1873 . Benedict conducted every Norwich festival from 1845 to 1878 inclusive, and the See also:

• LIVERPOOL
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS OF

Liverpool Phil-harmonic Society's concerts from 1876 to 1880 . He was the See also:

• REGULAR

regular accompanist at the See also:

• MONDAY (in O.E. Monandaeg, the moon's day, a translation of the Late Lat. Lunae dies, from which the French lundi is taken)

Monday Popular Concerts in London from their start, and with few exceptions acted as conductor of these concerts . He contributed an interesting life of Weber to the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies of " Great Musicians." In 1871 he was knighted, and in 1874 was made See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight See also:

• COMMANDER

commander of the orders of See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph (See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria) and See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick (See also:

• WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg) . He died in London on the 5th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1885 .