约瑟夫·格赖因德尔(Josef Greindl,1912-1993),德国男低音歌唱家,1912年12月23日出生于慕尼黑,1993年4月16日卒于维也纳。
1932年-1936年间,格赖因德尔在Münchner Musikakademie师从Paul Bender和Anna Bahr-Mildenburg,1936年作为《Stadttheater》中的Hunding在Krefeld做了歌剧首演,1938年-1942年间演出于Düsseldorf的Opernhaus,期间参加了1941年《Die Hexe von Passau》和《Das Schloß Dürande》两部歌剧的首场演出,1942年加入了柏林国家歌剧院,直到1948年成为柏林Städische歌剧院(后来的德意志歌剧院)的会员,直到1970年,在这里共参加了1369场演出,期间于1956年-1969年还出演于维也纳国家歌剧院,出演的主要角色有:Pogner(meistersingern),Landgrafen(Tannhäuser),Daland(Fliegenden Holländer),Hans Sachs(Meistersingern),Carl Orff's Antigonae Sarastro(Zauberflöte),Gurnemanz, Rocco(Fidelio),Commendatore(Don Giovanni),Titurel(Parsifal),King Heinrich(Lohengrin),Marke(Tristan),Fafner,Fasolt,Wanderer,以及Hagen(Nibelungenring),Moses(勋伯格的Moses und Aron)等等。
Josef Greindl (23 December 1912 - 16 April 1993) was a German operatic bass, remembered mainly for his performances of Wagnerian roles at Bayreuth beginning in 1943.
Josef Greindl was born in Munich and studied at the Munich Music Academy with Paul Bender. His opera debut was in 1936, as Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre in the State Theatre in Krefeld. He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, in 1939. In 1944, Adolf Hitler included him in the Gottbegnadeten list (&God-gifted List&). He played the part of King Marke in the 1952 Furtwängler recording of Tristan und Isolde. This vintage recording often appears in critics list of the top 100 greatest recordings, since Kirsten Flagstad was also in the cast. He sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1952-3. He sang in Wieland Wagner's last Ring.
In 1973, he became a professor at the Vienna Hochschule and later died in that city. His daughter Gudrun Greindl Rosner is also a singer.
Josef Greindl had a voice like a gravel quarry—massive, wide, deep, rough, and ancient-sounding, grey-timbred rather than black. From the mid-1940s through the late 1960s he was one of the three or four leading performers of Wagner's and Mozart's big bass roles, possessing the size and strength for the former and the dexterity, brains, and extreme range for the latter. He frequently appeared as Fafner, Hunding, and Hagen in the same performance of the Ring Cycle, which made him the only singer in the cast who had to perform all four nights. His earliest recorded singing was at Bayreuth, as Pogner the goldsmith, a character in his fifties or sixties, in 1943 when he (Greindl) was 31 years old. Although he was not as tall as some other big basses, his stage-presence was formidable.
He was not nearly as well-publicised as his frequent co-star Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, but Josef Greindl's recorded repertoire is almost equally wide and full, including besides Mozart and Wagner beyond reckoning, operatic roles by Gluck, Verdi, Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Smetana, Weber, Berg, Orff, and Beethoven; lieder by Schubert and Carl Loewe; and sacred music by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, and Rossini.