Georg Eugen Krantz (13 September 1844 – 26 May 1898) was a German pianist and

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. He was the maternal grandfather of

Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( , ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-. Many historians regard Heydrich ...

and

Heinz Heydrich Heinz Siegfried Heydrich (29 September 1905 – 19 November 1944) was the son of Richard Bruno Heydrich and the younger brother of SS-'' Obergruppenführer'' Reinhard Heydrich. After the death of his brother in June 1942, he helped a number of Je ...

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Born in

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, Krantz was the son of the painter and Amalia Krantz ''née'' Schmidt. He studied at the

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in Dresden. In 1865, he took a teaching post in

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, and from 1869 he taught at the Dresden Conservatory. In the same year, on 17 November 1869, Krantz married the Catholic Marie Antonie Mautsch. Krantz, initially a Protestant, had to convert to the Catholic denomination in order to obtain Marie's father's consent to the marriage. From 1869 to 1884, he directed the choir of the Semper Opera in Dresden. In 1882, Krantz was appointed a professor. In 1890, Krantz bought the Dresden conservatory from Heinrich Pudor. From 1896 until his death in 1898 at the age of 53, he simultaneously directed the Dresden Singakademie. His grave is located at the . His daughter Elisabeth (1871-1946) was married to the opera singer, composer and director of the conservatory in Halle,

Richard Bruno Heydrich Richard Bruno Heydrich (23 February 1865 – 24 August 1938) was a German opera singer (tenor), composer, and founder of the Halle Conservatory. A talented musician since childhood, Heydrich would find great success as a musical teacher, throug ...

; their son was

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krantz, Eugen German classical pianists German voice teachers 1844 births 1898 deaths German Roman Catholics Musicians from Dresden

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