death_date death_place years_active birth_place background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name occupation
9 august 2002 los angeles 1954 -- 1995 pittsburgh , pennsylvania , u.s. non_vocal_instrumentalist 6 november 1928 piano popular music peter matz
 peter matz musician , composer , arranger , conductor
peter matz

peter matz -lrb- november 6 , 1928 -- august 9 , 2002 -rrb- was an award winning american musician , composer , arranger and conductor .
his musical career in film , theater , television and studio recording spanned fifty years , and he worked with a number of prominent artists , including marlene dietrich , noël coward and barbra streisand .
matz won three emmys and a grammy award , and is best known for his work on streisand 's early albums .
