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Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas is credited on 853 releases across 256 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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853

Credits

256

Albums

8

Decades active

83

In collections

Biography

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German composer and arranger. Born on 1 December 1925 in Breslau, Silesia (Weimar, today Poland). Died on 17 May 2020 in Lugano, Switzerland. He was married. His beginnings as a film musician were in Berlin. In 1961 he moved to Grünwald near Munich. Famous for his TV and film soundtracks such as Raumpatrouille, the Edgar Wallace movies film series and the Jerry Cotton film series. His own publishing companies are:
Also present as P.T.V. an abbreviation for Peter Thomas Verlag.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

853 releases · 256 albums · active 1958–2025

  • Performance · 1,294
  • Other credits · 383
  • Production · 78
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: The Town House · Olympic Studios · CTS Studios · Rabbit-Studio

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Esther & Abi Ofarim
  • Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
  • Jean-Claude Deret
  • Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchester
  • The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
  • Edgar Wallace
  • Daisy Door

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