Gerhard Trede was born on January 17, 1913, in Hamburg, Germany. He was a successful composer in Germany from the 1940s through the 1980s. He composed for a variety of German television programs and documentaries (including the nature documentary series "The Wild, Wild World of Animals"), and composed music for the Selected Sound library, a producer of "library music" or "production music" used by producers of television, radio, and film... see more