- Adopted Austrian citizenship in 1959.
- Joined the Nazi Party in 1932, but resigned his membership two years later.
- Conducted radio orchestras in Brazil and Argentina. Evita Peron bestowed upon him the title of professor in 1950.
- Pianist, composer and band leader, the son of a chamber music singer and trained at Cologne Conservatory and the Munich Academy of Music. First performed in public from the age of eleven. Musical director of the Deutschen Theater in Munich and in Berlin from 1922 and of the "Max-Reinhardt-Buehnen" in 1930. In the 1930's and 40's, he became a leading composer of film music. He was among the first to popularise jazz and swing elements in German music during the 1930's.
- Kreuder was born in Aachen, the son of a Kammersänger.
- The filmcomposer Peter Kreuder was already a musical talent as a little chap. He got piano lessons at the age of 3 and three years later he had his first public concert.
- He died in Salzburg and is buried in Munich Ostfriedhof, grave number 55-19-2.
- In addition to his film work, Kreuder also wrote popular songs and art pieces, including a piano concerto, operettas, musicals, and two operas, Der Zerissene (1940) and Der Postmeister (1966).
- Returned to Germany where his last filmcomposition came into being like "An jedem Finger zehn" (1954), and "Der gestohlene Himmel" (1974).
- During the 1930s and 40s he became one of the most sought-after German musical film composers; his credits run to some 150 movies.
- In Argentina he also composed the music to movies like "El honorable inqulino" (1951), "Cosas de mujer" (1951) and "El gaucho y el diablo" (1952). After the death of Evita Peron death he went to Brazil where soon became a well-known personality too.
- He emigrated to Sweden in 1939, but returned to Germany two years later after threats against his relatives were launched by the Nazi authorities.
- In 1918 Peter Kreuder discovered the jazz, a music style he cultivated till to the end of his days.
- Thanks his huge popularity in whole Europe he was able to put on his opera "LIPS" in Stockholm in 1940.
- Kreuder joined the Nazi Party in 1932, however, he resigned his membership in 1934.
- Peter Kreuder gave 4.318 concerts in 39 countries and left behind 2.314 records and CDs, and even today some youngsters can still recall the unforgotten, inimitable "Peter Kreuder Touch".
- His main concentration was aimed in the 60's and 70's at Zarah Leander's comeback. He wrote the musicals "Madame Scandaleuse" and "Lady aus Paris" for her.
- His way led him via Czechoslovakia and Austria to Switzerland where he met Evita Peron in 1948. He followed her to Argentina where he lived till her death in 1952.
- He wrote two memoirs, Schön war die Zeit (1955) and Nur Puppen haben keine Tränen (1971).
- In the beginning of the sixties in the last century, Peter Kreuder recorded 2two long-playing records with the 'Reg Owen' orchestra in London/England, which he dedicated to Franz Liszt and Peter I. Tschaikowsky.
- When Peter Kreuder had the cheek to record works of Jewish artists like Friedich Hollaender in the enemy foreign countries, the National Socialists didn't approve it and he had to emigrate to Sweden.
- When he worked as a conductor for silent movies in Munich he came into contact with this medium for the first time. For the present he worked as an arranger for e.g. "Der blaue Engel" (1930) than he became a filmcomposer who was very successful in the 30's.
- His compositions added to the intended development of a "German" light music genre as contrasted to the US big band style, though they contained a large deal of jazz and swing elements.
- He left behind a great artistic legacy; the music to 188 sound films ("Kora Terry", "Wasser fur Canitoga", "Mazurka" etc.), 11 musicals, 1 opera, 5 operetta and 6 symphonic works.
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