Georg Haentzschel

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Georg Haentzschel (born December 23, 1907 in Berlin , † April 13, 1992 in Cologne ; born Georg Friedrich Esaias Häntzschel ) was a German pianist and film composer .

Haentzschel received his training from 1920 to 1929 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Since the mid-1920s he played as a pianist in various dance bands. Since the end of the decade he has appeared in the bands of Lud Gluskin , Gabriel Formiggini , Marek Weber and Billy Barton.

From 1937 he headed Die Goldene Sieben and worked with Peter Igelhoff and Freddie Brocksieper . Alongside Fritz Schulz-Reichel , Haentzschel was considered the best German swing pianist at the time.

Haentzschel came to film as an assistant to Theo Mackeben . From 1937 he composed independently. For several years he worked with director Josef von Baky . His most important work was the music for the monumental film Münchhausen , from whose main motifs he finally formed the large and the small Münchhausen suite .

Grave cemetery Melaten

In 1940 he took over as one of the directors and arrangers of the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra, which first went on air in 1942. After the war he worked for the Radio Berlin Tanzorchester and then went to Cologne , where he became director of the WDR's small entertainment orchestra . As a film composer, he continued to work with director Josef von Baky until 1959.

Haentzschel also composed string quartets and orchestral music such as Mosaik for big band and Mixturaleske for large orchestra and big band . He retired in the mid-1970s. In 1984 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.

Haentzschel died in 1992 at the age of 84 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 12 in G, grave 82).

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SURNAME Haentzschel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häntzschel, Georg Friedrich Esaias (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1992
Place of death Cologne