About Peter Gellhorn
Peter Gellhorn (born Hans Fritz Gellhorn; October 24, 1912 – February 13, 2004) was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. In 1935, he settled in England, where he continued his career thereafter. == Life == Gellhorn, the son of an architect, was born as Hans Fritz Gellhorn in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He came from a musical family and was educated at the Schiller Realgymnasium, at Berlin University and at the Berlin Music Academy. He was a pupil of the composer Franz Schreker. When the National Socialists came to power he was obliged to leave Germany (since his father was Jewish) and settled in England in 1935. In 1937 he recorded a collection of twenty Songs by Famous Russian Composers for Parlophone Records with the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing. The reviewer in The Gramophone wrote, "In the person of Hans Gellhorn Rosing found his best accompanist." Gellhorn was interned in Mooragh Camp on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien from 1939 to 1941. Ralph Vaughan Williams intervened to help get him released. He finally became a naturalized citizen in 1947 and changed his name to Peter.
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