Background
Zehm was born in Neusalz in Lower Silesia.
Zehm was born in Neusalz in Lower Silesia.
He received first piano lessons by the composer Hans Maria Dombrowski in Stettin whe he was 8 years old. In 1941, he began studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Walther Lampe (piano) and Friedrich Frischenschlager (theory). He continued after the war at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Harald Genzmer (composition) and Edith Picht-Axenfeld (piano).
From 1952 to 1956, he worked as a private music teacher, pianist and composer, from 1956 to 1963 he was responsible for music at the Amerika-Haus in Freiburg, and from 1963 to 1985 as an editor and for the music publishing house Schott in Mainz.
He died on 4 December 2007 in Wiesbaden.