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Georg Tintner was born on 22 May, 1917 in Vienna, Austria, is an Austrian conductor (1917–1999). Discover Georg Tintner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Conductor
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 22 May 1917
Birthday 22 May
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 2 October, 1999
Died Place Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality Austria

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1876

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.

1917

Georg Tintner, (22 May 1917 – 2 October 1999) was an Austrian 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, the first Jew ever to be accepted; at that time the choir was 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.

1938

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 arrested in Australia.

1946

He became a New Zealand citizen in 1946.

1947

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.

1954

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.

1966

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.

1971

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.

1974

In 1974, he rejoined the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera, by then known as the Australian Opera.

1976

He became music director of the Queensland Theatre Orchestra in 1976.

1987

In 1987 he moved to Canada, where he became director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

1995

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).

1998

In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

1999

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."