Josef Greindl

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Josef Greindl (born December 23, 1912 in Munich , † April 16, 1993 in Vienna ) was a German opera singer ( bass ) and university professor .

Life

Josef Greindl studied at the Munich Academy with Paul Bender and Anna Bahr-Mildenburg . He made his debut in 1936 at the Stadttheater Krefeld as Hunding in Wagner's Walküre . Greindl was a member of the Düsseldorf Opera ensemble from 1938 to 1942, until Heinz Tietjen brought him to the Berlin State Opera in 1942 , of which he was a member until 1948. In 1941, while still in Düsseldorf, he took part in the world premiere of the opera Die Hexe von Passau by Ottmar Gerster , in Berlin in the same year he sang in the world premiere of the opera Das Schloss Dürande by Othmar Schoeck . In 1943 and 1944 Greindl took part in the “ War Festival ” in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus , where he appeared as a Pogner in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg .

At the request of October 20, 1939, Greindl became a member of the NSDAP with effect from December 1, 1939 and was registered under the number 7,342,013. In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important singers in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front .

From 1948 Greindl was a member of the ensemble of the Städtische Oper in West Berlin , to which he belonged until 1970. From 1949 to 1952 he sang at the Salzburg Festival . Here he took part in the world premiere of Carl Orff's Antigonae and also appeared as Sarastro in the Magic Flute .

From 1952 to 1969 Greindl took part again regularly at the Bayreuth Festival . In 1956 he was appointed chamber singer in Berlin . In the same year he became a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera . In 1960 he began to sing the great bass-baritone roles in Wagner's operas ( Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , the Wanderer in Siegfried and also the title role in Der fiegen Holländer ). In Bayreuth he celebrated great successes as Sachs (he sang the part there from 1960, 1961, 1963 and 1964).

In 1961 he took over the management of the opera school of the Saarland University of Music in Saarbrücken. In 1974 he was appointed full professor at the Vienna University of Music .

In 1960 Greindl received the German Critics' Prize .

Greindl, whose main focus remained the bass parts in the works of Richard Wagner , has made guest appearances at almost all major opera stages in Germany and abroad, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden , the Paris Opera , La Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera in New York . According to Kutsch and Riemens, Josef Greindl had "a powerful, expressive bass voice, the clarity of the declamation and its stylistic empathy in the serious and buffo subject, not least in concert singing".

Josef Greindl was buried on April 30, 1993 in the Neustift cemetery in Vienna-Döbling (group 22, row 6, no. 5).

Josef Greindl grave

Discography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon , Directmedia Digital Library 33, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89853-133-3 , entry on Greindl, Josef .
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 2.503.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 197.
personal data
SURNAME Greindl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1993
Place of death Vienna