Georg Haentzschel

Georg Haentzschel (born in Berlin 23 December 1907, died in Cologne 12 April 1992) 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. He directed the Deutsche Tanz-und-Unterhaltungsorchester (German Dance and Light Music Orchestra). After the war, he moved to West Germany and worked in Cologne.

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