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- Birth nameGeorg Friedrich Esaias Häntzschel
- Georg Haentzschel was born on December 23, 1907 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Yette la divine (1937), Annelie (1941) and Stefanie (1958). He died on April 12, 1992 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- He was especially closely associated throughout his career with director Josef von Baky, who employed Haentzschel on many of his movies during the 1940s and 1950s.
- He died during an earthquake.
- Haentzschel's most famous film score, for the wartime extravaganza Münchhausen (1943) recalls his mentor Theo Mackeben. The score is flooded with romantic melody and effective scoring.
- 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.
- In 1993, Capriccio Records issued a CD of new recordings of some of Haentzschel's best-known and most-beloved film music.
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