Trivia

His bass voice was particularly fit for Wagner music, especially for the roles of Hagen, Hunding, Fafner, Pogner.

German opera singer. He Sìstudied from 1932 to 1936 at the Münchner Musikakademie with Paul Bender and Anna Bahr-Mildenburg.

Since 1961 he was made a professor at the Saarbrücken Hochschule für Musik, and since 1973 he was a professor at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik.

He was not nearly as famous 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, Cimarosa, Lortzing, and Beethoven; lieder by Schubert, Schumann, and Carl Loewe; and sacred music by Bach, Handel, Heinrich Schütz, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Dvorak, and Rossini.

Although he was famous for the low bass parts, his top was very comfortable and he began experimenting with higher-pitched roles in the 1960s: Hans Sachs (at which he excelled), the Wanderer in Siegfried, the title character in Der fliegende Holländer and even Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte.