orig. Andreas Ludwig Priwin
born April 6, 1929, Berlin, Ger.
German-born U.S. pianist, composer, and conductor.
He fled Nazi persecution with his family and moved to Los Angeles in 1939. He orchestrated and arranged music for MGM in the 1940s and '50s and thereafter scored films for several studios. Meanwhile he had become a noted classical and jazz pianist and started conducting. He served as principal conductor of the Houston Symphony, London Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He also composed a symphony, concertos, and the opera A Streetcar Named Desire (1998), as well as popular songs. He was knighted in 1996.