Born in Łódź,[2] Szreter began his musical career as a child prodigy; at the age of nine he made his first public appearance in his native Poland.
At the age of 13, he received a scholarship to study at the Petersburg Conservatory, where he remained until the outbreak of the First World War.
In 1925 he appeared in a trio with the cellist Emanuel Feuermann and the violinist Boris Kroyt at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and at the Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium.
In 1933 Parlophone planned a series of recordings of the chamber music of Johannes Brahms, which, due to the death of the pianist, no longer came into being.
[6] The funeral took place on 23 March 1933 at Friedhof Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district.