Romeo and Juliet
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The Deanery garden, Bampton 20, 21 July
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St John’s Smith Square 13 September
Georg Anton Benda, born Jiří Antonín (baptised 30 June 1722, died 6 November 1795), was the son of Jan Jiří, linen weaver and village musician, and one of the most important members of a dynasty of musicians (Groves lists twelve) which has been called ‘the Bach family of Bohemia’. Thanks to Frederick the Great’s high favour of his older violinist brother Franz, the whole family emigrated to Prussia in 1742.Jiří Antonín joined Franz and his younger brother Joseph as violinists in the court orchestra. In 1750 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha, and it was in the Thuringian town of Gotha that he was to spend much of his remaining career.
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