Georg Tintner

Georg Tintner ( May 22nd, 1917 in Vienna, † October 2, 1999 in Halifax, Canada ) was an Austrian, 1946 New Zealand conductor.

Georg Tintner was of Jewish descent. He studied in Vienna music, among others, Felix Weingartner and Joseph Marx, and became influenced in particular by the rediscovery and early care of the original versions of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner both the " Viennese sound " of the Philharmonic as well as from their repertoire. After the "Anschluss " he had to leave the country and lived for several years in New Zealand withdrawn. In the late 1940s, we went with his career uphill: Tintner was probably the most sought after specialists German - Austrian music of Romanticism in the Commonwealth countries - New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Scotland and Ireland. With the local orchestras, he recorded for Naxos a brilliant and idiosyncratic complete recording of Bruckner 's symphonies, taking the principles of the Viennese sound had generally teach ( bowing, etc.) in the first place these ensembles and doing a similar performance accomplished as Bruno Walter with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. His prefaces to the various recordings are therefore fascinating from a technical and analytical point of view.

After six years cancer Tintner committed in Canada, where he lived and conducted by defenestration suicide since 1987.