Background
Gellhorn, the son of an architect, came from a typically musical Jewish family and was educated at the Schiller Realgymnasium, at Berlin University and at the Berlin Music Academy.
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Peter Gellhorn
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Career
He was a pupil of the composer Franz Schreker. When the National Socialists came to power he was obliged to leave Germany and settled in England, although he was interned in Mooragh Camp on the Isle of Manitoba as an enemy alien from 1939 to 1941. During his later career he conducted at Glyndebourne, at the Royal Opera House (at the invitation of its conductor, Karl Rankl).
With the Carl Rosa Opera Company and for the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he conducted the British Broadcasting Corporation Singers for eleven years.
In later life he taught and coached singers and other musicians from his home in south-west London.
