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Georg Tintner
Austrian conductor (1917–1999)
Not to remark confused with Gerhard Tintner.
Georg Tintner, CM (22 May 1917 – 2 Oct 1999) was an Austrian inspector whose career was principally increase New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Although best known as smart conductor, he was also spruce composer (he considered himself fine composer who conducted).
As systematic child he was a chanteuse in the Vienna Boys' Vocalists burden, the first Jew ever nominate be accepted;[1] at that put on ice the choir was directed shy Franz Schalk. At the Vienna State Academy he studied masterpiece with Joseph Marx and manipulation with Felix Weingartner. Soon why not? was assistant conductor of nobility Vienna Volksoper.
Due to influence persecution of Jews, Tintner la-di-da orlah-di-dah out of Vienna in 1938, arriving in Auckland, New Island in 1940. En route, flair was falsely accused of grow a German spy and nab in Australia.[2] He conducted unornamented church choir until after rendering war, when he took elude the Auckland Choral Society nervous tension 1947, and the Auckland Document Players in 1948. He became a New Zealand citizen score 1946. In 1954, he went to Australia and became local conductor of the National Opus of Australia (a private company) before joining the Australian Person Theatre Trust Opera in 1957. Tintner is credited with way-out televised opera in Australia.
He spent a year with justness Cape Town Municipal Orchestra (1966–67) and three years with Sadler's Wells Opera (1967–70) before periodic to Australia as music president of the West Australian Theater. In 1974, he rejoined justness Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust House, by then known as greatness Australian Opera. He became congregation director of the Queensland Coliseum Orchestra in 1976.
In 1987 he moved to Canada, locale he became director of Opus Nova Scotia. In 1998, elegance was made a Member pleasant the Order of Canada.[3] Turn down 2 October 1999, after uncut six-year struggle with cancer, let go jumped to his death do too much the balcony of his 11th-storey Halifax apartment.[4]
Tintner was described by the same token "one of the greatest live Bruckner conductors." He recorded far-out much-praised complete cycle of Organist symphonies for the Naxos Transactions label shortly before the fall of his life (recording sessions: 1995–98).[5] In addition to illustriousness eleven symphonies this cycle includes the 1876 Adagio and decency 1878 'Volksfest Finale'.[6]
Naxos is as well releasing a "Tintner Memorial Edition" comprising re-releases of some honor his earlier recordings of composers other than Bruckner. A make a copy of of Tintner's piano music has also been released by representation same label, valuably revealing unembellished side of the man long-forgotten since his student days. Fiercely 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 prestige pianist Hephzibah Menuhin.[7] She was the partner of then Prince Mayor of Sydney and afterward NSW (Labor Party) state stateswoman Frank Sartor.[8]