Benjamin Bilse
Born: 17th August 1816, Legnica, Poland
Died: 13th July 1902, Legnica, Poland
Nationality: German
Benjamin Bilse was a German conductor and composer.
Bilse was born in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica) in the Prussian Silesia Province. He obtained a rich musical education, as at the Vienna Conservatory under violinist Joseph Böhm, and played in the orchestra of Johann Strauss I. Returned to Liegnitz, he became municipal Kapellmeister in 1842.
From 1867 he regularly performed with the "Bilse's Band" (Bilse'sche Kapelle) at the Concerthaus on Leipziger Straße in Berlin. The orchestra became increasingly popular, Bilse toured Europe and gave guest concerts in Saint Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Vienna, as well as at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where his band performed The Blue Danube together with Johann Strauss II. In 1873 Richard Wagner conducted the orchestra in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm I.
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- Baumgartenallee-Polka (1)
- Bomben und Granaten (Marsch) (1)
- Catharina-Quadrille (1)
- Concerthaus Polka (1)
- Die Fürstensteiner (Walzer) (2)
- Die Provinzialen (Walzer) (1)
- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Quadrille (1)
- Königspolonaise (2)
- Liegnitzer-Breslauer Eisenbahn-Galopp, Op. 3 (1)
- Marienwalzer (1)
- Nur mit Dir (Polka) (1)
- Schlesische Lieder (2)
- Schuetzenmarsch (2)
- Silesia-Polka (1)
- Sturmmarsch Galopp (2)
- Victoria Walzer (2)
- Winterflocken-Galopp (1)