Georg Tintner

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Georg Bernhard Tintner ( May 22, 1917 in Vienna - October 2, 1999 in Halifax , Canada ) was an Austrian composer and conductor who took New Zealand citizenship in 1946.

life and work

Georg Tintner began to learn the piano at the age of six and composed a little later. From the age of nine to thirteen he was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir . He studied music in Vienna, among others with Felix Weingartner and Joseph Marx , and was influenced there by both the “ Viennese sound ” of the Philharmonic and its repertoire, in particular through the rediscovery and ongoing maintenance of the original versions of Anton Bruckner's symphonies . At the age of 19 Tintner was engaged at the Vienna Volksoper . He was considered an extraordinary talent.

After the annexation of Austria , he had to leave the country due to his Jewish origins, emigrated via Yugoslavia and Great Britain to New Zealand, where he lived in retirement for a few years. Due to personal losses and the uprooting caused by emigration, it was no longer possible for him to continue composing. He belongs to the series of lost composers as a result of the National Socialist tyranny.

It was not until the late 1940s that he found his feet again and began a successful career as a conductor. He became Resident Conductor of the Australian National Opera, went to Cape Town in 1966 , where he directed the city orchestra, and was then hired for three years at Sadler's Wells in London. In the UK he has also conducted the London Mozart Players , the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra . In 1971 he went back to Australia, where he conducted all major opera companies, including the Sydney Opera House . His repertoire included fifty operas, around two thirds of which he could conduct by heart.

Tintner became probably the most sought-after specialist in Austrian Romanticism in the Commonwealth of Nations - New Zealand, Australia , Canada, also Scotland and Ireland . With the orchestras there he made a brilliant and idiosyncratic complete recording of Bruckner's symphonies for Naxos , whereby he had to teach these ensembles the principles of Viennese sound ( bowing etc.) in general and achieved a similar performance as Bruno Walter did with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra . His forewords to the various recordings are accordingly fascinating from a technical and analytical point of view.

In 1987 he was appointed music director of Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax and relocated to Canada. From then on, he conducted all major Canadian orchestras, such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra , and was also signed by the Michigan Opera in Detroit . He regularly came to the Czech Republic to there master classes to give.

After six years of cancer Tintner committed by defenestration suicide .

Compositions (selection)

  • Sonata for violin
  • Variations on a Theme by Chopin
  • Prelude "Longing"
  • For the death of a friend
  • Sonata for piano in F minor
  • Fugue in G major
  • Fugue in C minor
  • Funeral music (Musica Tragica)

Awards

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  • Rainer Elster: Georg Tintner (conductor) makes music. Ö1 bis Zwei , August 31, 2016, accessed on September 2, 2016.
  • Naxos , short biography of the conductor and list of his recordings

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Tintner, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tintner, Georg Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-New Zealand conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1999
Place of death Halifax (Nova Scotia)