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Peter Diamand, CBE (8 June 191316 January 1998) was an arts administrator and director of the Edinburgh Festival, carrying out that role from 1965 to 1978. Diamand was born in Berlin on 8 June 1913, and educated there, but held Austrian nationality.〔 In the early 1930s, being Jewish,〔(The Guardian, 14 April 2009 )〕 he fled to Amsterdam to escape Nazism.〔 While there, he worked as secretary to pianist Artur Schnabel.〔 Diamand spent some time in a Dutch concentration camp before escaping. He and his mother needed to hide from the Nazis, in attics and other cramped places, with inadequate food.〔(Times Online, 25 April 2009 )〕 Schnabel's last student, pianist Maria Curcio, looked after them, at great risk and high cost to her own health and career.〔 In 1947, they married.〔 They divorced in 1971. He subsequently married American violinist, Sylvia Rosenberg. He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 15 August 1966, and was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.〔 Diamand died on 16 January 1998, in Amsterdam.〔 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Diamand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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