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Walter Bergmann (1902 -1988)

According to the Internet source given below, Walter Bergmann was born in Hamburg and studied flute and piano at the Leipzig Conservatoire. He also studied law in Halle, gaining his Doctorate in 1932. In 1938, having defended a number of Jewish clients, he was obliged to escape to England. After internment in the Isle of Man during the war, he decided to make music his career, his legal expertise being of no use in England.
Walter Bergmann worked together with Edgar Hunt preparing hundreds of recorder publications between them. His most valuable contribution to the recorder scene was probably his work in rediscovering and editing Baroque works by Francesco Barsanti, John Blow, Charles François Dieupart, Henry Purcell, Johann Christian Schickhardt and Georg Philipp Telemann, although he also arranged William Byrd, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Antonín Dvorák, Slavonic and Russian tunes and took a practical interest in the Orff movement.
As well as publishing. Walter Bergmann also conducted, accompanied and taught in the London area, meeting and working with such well-known musicians as Michael Kemp Tippett and Alfred Deller.
For his activities as a recorder player, please click here.

Sheet Music:
Sheet music at SheetMusicPlus.com
Websites:
S.R.P. Walter Bergmann Fund , contact details concerning S.R.P. Walter Bergmann Fund.
Books:
[§] Musican for a While by Anne Martin