Bendix, Otto
BENDIX, OTTO
BENDIX, OTTO (1845–1904), pianist, oboist, composer, and teacher. Born in Copenhagen, the brother of the conductor Victor *Bendix, he studied with Niels Gade and then with Kullak in Berlin and Franz Liszt in Weimar. Bendix taught piano at the Copenhagen Conservatory and was oboist in a theater orchestra.
In 1880 he immigrated to the United States to teach at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and in 1895 he founded his own music school in San Francisco. He also appeared as a concert pianist in the United States and Europe and published some piano pieces.
bibliography:
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (19918); W. Lyle, A Dictionary of Pianists (1985).
[Naama Ramot (2nd ed.)]
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