Greindl Josef, *23 December 1912 Munich, †16 April 1993 Vienna, German singer (bass). He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich under P. Bender and A. Bahr-Mildenburg. He made his debut in 1936 in Krefeld. Between 1938 and 1942 he performed in Düsseldorf; from 1942 he sang at the Staatsoper, and from 1949 at the Städtische Oper in Berlin; between 1956 and 1969 he was associated with the Staatsoper in Vienna. He took part in international music festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh; he sang on leading European and American stages (in 1952 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, in 1963 at Covent Garden in London). In 1956 he was awarded the title of Kammersänger. From 1961, he served as a professor of singing at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken, and from 1971 at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Greindl became renowned as an outstanding interpreter of Wagnerian roles (Hunding in Die Walküre, Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and the Wanderer in Siegfried). Greindl’s repertoire also included roles in opera buffa as well as art songs. He made numerous recordings and took part, among others, in complete recordings of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser (Philips), and Tristan und Isolde (Decca/Electrola).
