Hans Rosbaud

Hans continued studying music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, under the tutelage of Bernhard Sekles in composition and Alfred Hoehn in piano.

This was with good reason: his brother Paul was a spy for the Allies, helping them stay informed, amongst other things, about the Nazi progress towards developing an atomic bomb.

[3] That year Rosbaud became the first chief conductor of the South West German Radio Orchestra in Baden-Baden, where he remained for the rest of his life.

[6] In Fanfare, Peter J. Rabinowitz pointed to range of his sympathies, claiming it was "greater than that of just about any of his contemporaries except perhaps Bernstein, Scherchen, and Stokowski.

Putting himself at the service of music he chose to perform, he commanded the respect of numerous notable composers of the 20th century.

His favorite pastimes consisted of reading world literature in its original languages (ancient and modern), and studying scientific journals.