Peter Richter de Rangenier

Peter Richter was born in Prague in 1930, into an old Austrian family, and studied conducting and composition at Lubeck and Hamburg. He made his name in the 1960s as conductor and composer and worked from then on with the larger opera houses and symphony orchestras of Europe and America; for many years he directed the opera and the philharmonic in Santiago de Chile, and he later held a professorship at the academy of music in Vienna. Among his works the operas The Flying Dutchman-, Und Pippi tanzt and the Requiem for St Nepomuk have been the most played. His Chamber Symphony of 1993 had its Bulgarian premiere at the National Museum of Education in Gabrovo in February 1995. Richter appeared as conductor at the Thracia Summer Music Festival in Plovdiv in 1997 and 1998.