Georg Haentzschel
Georg Haentzschel (23 December 1907, Berlin – 12 April 1992, Cologne) was a German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger. Haentzschel studied at the Stern Conservatoire in Berlin and made a career which eventually left him as the last remaining representative composer from what he considered the golden age of German film music. He worked equally happily as a jazz pianist, regularly collaborating with the similarly gifted Peter Igelhoff.
Georg Haentzschel
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- Born
- 1907 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1992 · Cologne.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · conductor · musician · bandleader · lyricist
- Fields
- jazz
- Honours
- German Film Award
- Languages
- German
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Georg Haentzschel (23 December 1907, Berlin – 12 April 1992, Cologne) was a German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger. Haentzschel studied at the Stern Conservatoire in Berlin and made a career which eventually left him as the last remaining representative composer from what he considered the golden age of German film music. He worked equally happily as a jazz pianist, regularly collaborating with the similarly gifted Peter Igelhoff.
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He directed the Deutsche Tanz-und-Unterhaltungsorchester (German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra). After the war, he moved to West Germany and worked in Cologne. Haentzschel's most famous film score, for the wartime extravaganza Münchhausen (1943) recalls his mentor Theo Mackeben. The score is flooded with romantic melody and effective scoring. Representative work may be heard in many other film scores, such as Via Mala (released 1948), Annelie (1941) and Robinson soll nicht sterben. He was killed during the 1992 Roermond Earthquake.
• The Divine Jetta (1937) • Dangerous Game (1937) • Don't Promise Me Anything (1937) • Her First Experience (1939) • Stars of Variety (1939) • Small Town Poet (1940) • Annelie (1941) • 5 June (1942) • Two in a Big City (1942) • When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943) • Via Mala (1945) • The Charming Young Lady (1953) • It Was Always So Nice With You (1954) • Emil and the Detectives (1954) • My Children and I (1955) • The First Day of Spring (1956) • Precocious Youth (1957) • Confess, Doctor Corda (1958) • Stefanie (1958) • The Man Who Sold Himself (1959) • Marili (1959) • The Ideal Woman (1959)
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- 1.Standesamt Berlin X c, Geburtsurkunde Nr. 2423, 30. Dezember 1907 (Landesarchiv Berlin).
- 2.Liste der Schülerinnen und Schüler des Stern’schen Konservatoriums udk-berlin.de
- 3.Hentzschel, Georg [sic!]. In: Theodor Kellenter: Die Gottbegnadeten: Hitlers Liste unersetzbarer Künstler. Kiel: Arndt, 2020, ISBN 978-3-88741-290-6, S. 451
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