Greindl, Josef (1912–1993)

German bass. He studied with Bender and Bahr-Mildenburg in Munich. He made his debut at Krefeld in 1936 and sang in Düsseldorf before moving to Berlin during World War II. He first sang at Bayreuth in 1943, as Pogner, and returned often until 1969. His performances of Hagen in Götterdämmerung/The Twilight of the Gods were memorable: the declamatory style which he developed was also used in Berlin in 1959, when he gave Schoenberg's Moses at the Deutsche Oper. He made his New York Metropolitan Opera House debut in 1952, as Heinrich in Lohengrin.