Performance · Production
Peter Wolf
real name Peter F. Wolf
Peter Wolf is credited on 2,014 releases across 412 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,014
Credits
412
Albums
7
Decades active
469
In collections
Biography
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Austrian-American pianist and keyboardist, producer, composer and arranger (* 26 August 1952 in Vienna, Austria).
Wolf studied classical piano at the Vienna's Conservatory of Music and won the European Jazz Festival as a solo pianist at age 16. He came to America in 1975 and began playing keyboards for Frank Zappa. He was studio keyboardist and arranger from 1980 to 1985 and started his production career in 1985 with the Starship album Knee Deep In The Hoopla (Europe 1985) (opens in a new tab).
Wolf has scored a number of major motion pictures and also written and performed on 6 of his own albums for the Polydor and WEA labels.
He co-produced and arranged the Commodores' #1 album Nightshift (US 1985) (opens in a new tab), Heart's biggest selling album entitled Heart (US 1985) (opens in a new tab), Go West's album Indian Summer (Europe 1992) (opens in a new tab), The Pointer Sisters (opens in a new tab)' album Only Sisters Can Do That (Canada 1993) (opens in a new tab), Chicago (opens in a new tab)'s album XXXII - Stone Of Sisyphus and Thomas Anders' album Souled (Europe 1995) (opens in a new tab).
In Rights Society data bases the alias Josef Dermoser (IPI: 00769203227) sometimes is used for writer credits.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,014 releases · 412 albums · active 1969–2025
- Performance · 2,978
- Production · 1,331
- Other credits · 352
- Engineering · 27
Studios: The Palladium, NYC · Hammersmith Odeon · UMRK · Conway Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Top Gun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1986

Sheik Yerbouti
1979

Heart
1985

Joe's Garage Act I
1979

Joe's Garage Acts II & III
1979

Knee Deep In The Hoopla
1985

Pretty Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1990

Mosaic
1986

Vital Signs
1984

Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
1987

Polka Party!
1986

Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
1981

Nightshift
1985

Tinsel Town Rebellion
1981

Guitar
1988

No Protection
1987

As Far As Siam
1981

The Iron Man (The Musical By Pete Townshend)
1989

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
1987

We Built This City
1985

Baby Snakes
1983

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988

Halloween 77
2017

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of "Weird Al" Yankovic
2017
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Frank Zappa
- Starship (2)
- Wang Chung
- Big Country
- Go West
- Zappa
- Indecent Obsession
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