Max Bendix

Max Bendix ( born March 28, 1866 in Detroit / Michigan, † December 6, 1945 in Chicago) was an American violinist and conductor.

Bendix has appeared as a musical prodigy at the age of eight years. In 1878 he joined twelve year when Cincinnati May Festival under the direction of Theodore Thomas on, who received him in the following year in his orchestra. In 1880 he was concertmaster of the Cincinnati Orchestra for the 1883-84 McCall Opera Company and the Germania Orchestra of Philadelphia. In the season 1885-86 he was first violinist at the Metropolitan Opera under Anton Seidl also concertmaster of Frank Van der Stuckens Arion Society of New York.

Before and after a period of study in 1889 in Europe Bendix reunited with Theodore Thomas. 1897-98 he undertook a concert tour of the USA with violinists Eugène Ysaÿe and Henri Marteau, cellist and pianist Jean Gerardy Aimé Lachaume. In 1899 he founded the Bendix String Quartet with Eugene Boegner (second violin), Ottokar Novacek (viola) and Leo Schulz ( Cello ).

In the season 1904-05 Bendix was - again under the direction of Van Stuckens - concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. From 1905 he worked there as a conductor. In 1907 he went as a concert master and conductor to Cleofonte Campaninis Manhattan Opera Company. From 1919 he conducted in the San Francisco People's Philharmonic Orchestra, which consisted of musicians who had separated from the San Francisco Symphony. In addition, Bendix operated as a violin teacher. His most famous student was Arthur Judson.

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  • WL Hubbard: "The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Biographies Part One ", new edition Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781417907120, pp. 60-61
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Musicians: A Chronological Listing
  • Man
  • Born in 1866
  • Died in 1945
  • Classical violinist
  • Conductor
  • Music teacher
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