Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1962)

Bruno Walter

German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876–1962)

Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the United States in 1939. He worked closely with Gustav Mahler, whose music he helped to establish in…