Artist Info: Julius Benedict

Sir Julius Benedict (27 November 1804 – 5 June 1885), was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career.

Benedict was born in Stuttgart, the son of a Jewish banker, and learnt composition from Johann Nepomuk Hummel at Weimar and Carl Maria von Weber at Dresden; it was Weber who introduced him in Vienna to Beethoven on 5 October 1823. In the same year he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Kärnthnerthor theatre at Vienna [read more...]