František Benda (November 25, 1709 – March 7, 1786) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiřà AntonĂn Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Early in the eighteenth century František Benda was born in Bohemia at the village of StarĂ© Benártky, and Benda became the founder of a German school of violin playing. In his youth he was a chorister at Prague and afterward in the Chapel Royal at Dresden. Read more on Last.fm