{{Short description|Czech composer (1838–1897)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand French|Karel Bendl|topic=bio|date=August 2013}} {{Expand German|Karel Bendl|topic=bio|date=August 2013}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Karel Bendl | image = Jan Vilímek - Karel Bendl HL.jpg | caption = Portrait of Karel Bendl by Jan Vilímek | other_names = Podskalský | birth_date = 1838-04-16 | death_date = 1897-09-20 | occupation = Composer, Conductor }}
<!-- [[File:WP_Böhmische_Komponisten.jpg|200px|right|thumb|(from left to right) Antonín Dvořák, Heinrich von Kaan, Zdeněk Fibich<br>Karel Bendl, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Karel Kovařovic (30 March 1885, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)]] --> '''Karel Bendl''', or {{langx|de|'''Karl Bendl'''}}, pseudonym: ''Podskalský'' (16 April 1838, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire {{ndash}} 20 September 1897, Prague) was a Czech composer.200px|right|thumb|(1897) [[File:Praha, Bubenec - Karel Bendl.jpg|200px|right|thumb|A monument in Bubeneč, work by Stanislav Sucharda]]
==Life== Bendl was born and died in Prague. He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Antonín Dvořák one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works. In 1861 his ''Poletuje holubice'' won a prize and at once became a favorite with the local choral societies. In 1864, Bendl went to Brussels, where for a short time he held the post of second conductor of the opera.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} In Paris, he became influenced by the stage works of Charles Gounod and Ambroise Thomas and especially by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
By 1865, he was back in Prague where he was appointed conductor of the choral society known as ''{{Interlanguage link|Hlahol|cs|vertical-align=sup}}'', and he held the post until 1879, when Russian {{Interlanguage link|Baron Dervies|ru|3=Дервиз|vertical-align=sup}} (originally from Hamburg), includes {{Interlanguage link|Paul von Derwies|fr|3=Paul von Derwies|lt=Baron Pavel (Grigor'evič) fon Derwies <small>''(von der Wiese, Dervies, Dervíz)''</small>|vertical-align=sup}} engaged his services for his private band.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
Bendl's first opera ''Lejla'' was successfully produced in 1868. It was followed by ''Břetislav a Jitka'' (1870), ''Starý ženich'', a comic opera (1883), ''Karel Škréta'' (1883), ''Dítě Tábora'', a prize opera (1892), and ''Máti Míla'' (1891). Other operas by Bendl are ''Indická princezna'', ''Černohorci'', a prize opera, and the two operas ''Čarovný květ'' and ''Gina''. His ballad ''Švanda dudák'' acquired much popularity; he published a mass in D minor for male voices and another mass for a mixed choir; two songs to "Ave Maria"; a violin sonata and a string quartet Op.119 in F Major; and a quantity of songs and choruses, many of which have come to be regarded as national possessions of Bohemia.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
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==References== * {{EB1911|wstitle=Bendl, Karel|volume=3|page=716}}
== External links == * [http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/bendl-string-quartet.htm Karel Bendl String Quartet in F, Op.119] * [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1413, Twelve Gipsy songs. 1st and 2nd series. With pianoforte accompaniment]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (From the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection) * [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/2223 Quartet, strings, op. 119, F major] (From the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection) * {{IMSLP|id=Bendl, Karel}} * [https://www.ceskyhudebnislovnik.cz/slovnik/index.php?option=com_mdictionary&task=record.record_detail&id=7406 Detailed biography] {{in lang|cs}}
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