Franz Bendel was a Bohemian German pianist and composer. He was a student of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

 for five years in Weimar

Weimar

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. Bendel was a superb pianist who toured extensively until his death from typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

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 in Boston

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 while on an American

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 tour. He was born in Schönlinde, Bohemia

Bohemia

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, Austrian Empire

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.

From 1862, he lived in Berlin

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 and taught at Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...

's Music Academy, Neue Akademie der Tonkunst. He was also the author of over four hundred compositions, many of them for the piano, including one piano concerto.

Compositions

• Polkas de Salon pour le Piano, op.58. No.1 Polka gracieuse No.2 Polka de la Jeunesse heureuse (B. Schott's Söhnen, Mainz