Fried Walter was probably the most versatile musician between the pupils of Arnold Schönberg, whose conceptions however he did not take as a composer. He was considered as one of the most important representatives of the maintenance and broadcast music in the Berlin of the post-war period. It led the RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester over twenty years. He wrote numerous works, the majority with the music publishing house Zimmermann. He died on 8 April 1996.