Peter Diamand

Peter Diamand, CBE (8 June 191316 January 1998) was an arts administrator and director of the Edinburgh International Festival from 1965 to 1978.

Diamand was born in Berlin on 8 June 1913, and educated there, but held Austrian nationality. he fled to Amsterdam to escape Nazism. Schnabel's last student, pianist Maria Curcio, looked after them, at great risk and high cost to her own health and career. and was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.

Diamand died in Amsterdam on 16 January 1998.