Georg Tintner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georg Tintner

Austrian musician

Date of Birth: 22-May-1917

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1999

Profession: composer, conductor

Nationality: Austria, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Georg Tintner

  • Georg Tintner, (22 May 1917 – 2 October 1999) was an Austrian-born conductor whose career was principally in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.
  • Although best known as a conductor, he was also a composer (he considered himself a composer who conducted). As a child he was a singer in the Vienna Boys' Choir, directed by Franz Schalk.
  • At the Vienna State Academy he studied composition with Joseph Marx and conducting with Felix Weingartner.
  • Soon he was assistant conductor of the Vienna Volksoper. Due to the persecution of Jews, Tintner moved out of Vienna in 1938, arriving in Auckland, New Zealand in 1940.
  • En route, he was falsely accused of being a German spy and got arrested in Australia.
  • He conducted a church choir until after the war, when he took over the Auckland Choral Society in 1947, and the Auckland String Players in 1948.
  • He became a New Zealand citizen in 1946.
  • In 1954, he went to Australia and became resident conductor of the National Opera of Australia (a private company) before joining the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera in 1957.
  • Tintner is credited with pioneering televised opera in Australia. He spent a year with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra (1966–67) and three years with Sadler's Wells Opera (1967–70) before returning to Australia as Music Director of the West Australian Opera.
  • In 1974, he rejoined the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera, by then known as the Australian Opera.
  • He became Music Director of the Queensland Theatre Orchestra in 1976. In 1987 he moved to Canada, where he became director of Symphony Nova Scotia.
  • In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
  • On 2 October 1999, after a six-year struggle with cancer, he jumped to his death from the balcony of his 11th-storey Halifax apartment.Tintner was described as "one of the greatest living Bruckner conductors." He recorded a much-praised complete cycle of Bruckner symphonies for the Naxos CD label shortly before the end of his life (recording sessions: 1995-98).
  • In addition to the eleven symphonies this cycle includes the 1876 Adagio and the 1878 'Volksfest Finale'.Naxos is also releasing a "Tintner Memorial Edition" comprising re-releases of some of his earlier recordings of composers other than Bruckner.
  • A disc of Tintner's piano music has also been released by the same label, valuably revealing a side of the man long-forgotten since his student days.
  • Some of his own early compositions have been recorded: Violin Sonata, Piano Sonata, Trauermusik, Chopin Variations, and Prelude. His daughter was the dancer Hephzibah Tintner (1971–2001), whom he named after the pianist Hephzibah Menuhin.
  • She was the partner of then Lord Mayor of Sydney and later NSW (Labor Party) state politician Frank Sartor.

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