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legend as an orchestra conductor in Munich until the 1990s. The effects of his pedagogical work as director of the Munich Opera Studio can hardly be measured: Most of the 200 or so graduates of this opera school went on to careers at German state theatres and
European opera houses. Bender's most successful students include
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Bender was responsible for a repertoire of works without limits. Critics described him as one of the "last representatives of a dying species" (Marcel Prawy) - the universally educated, masterfully interpreting universalist who was perfectly up to every task ad hoc "off the cuff". Bender was almost a
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Bender's musical productions are only insufficiently published on recordings, but are variously documented in radio archives. The
Hamburg Archive for the Art of Singing has been publishing recordings of opera performances under Bender's direction since 2010.
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Theater SaarbrĂĽcken. A year later, he was able to continue his studies with Bongartz, who in the meantime had become a professor at the Leipzig Academy of Music as head of the conducting class. In addition to his studies in all subjects relevant to a
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up to and including 1976. From 1969 onwards, he also held the position of Studio
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After the end of the war, Bender found work in a machine factory after completing his schooling. In 1946, he got his first job as a
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