Adler, Peter Hermann (1899–1990)

Czech-born American conductor. He studied in Prague with Zemlinsky and conducted in Brno, Bremen, and Kiev before leaving for the USA in 1938. He assisted Fritz Busch in founding the New Opera Company New York (1941) and from 1949 was director of NBC Television Opera. He founded NET opera in 1969 and gave the first US performance of Janáček's From the House of the Dead. He was musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 1959–67.