From 1930 to 1936 he studied piano, organ, conducting, and composition at the Musikhochschule München, the latter with Joseph Haas.
From 1933 he moved to London, where he worked as a pianist and composer, co-operating with dancers, including Leslie Barrowes.
He was a soldier in the final years of World War II, fighting on the Western front.
After the war he worked as an organist and choral director in Mittersill, Austria.
Totentanz nach Holbein for Piano & Small Orchestra (1947), written after the shock of WWII, inspired by Holbein's Totentanz woodcuts, and making extensive use of the folksong Der grimmig Tod.