Willy Sommerfeld was born on May 11, 1904 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He died on December 19, 2007 in Berlin, Germany.
A silent film pianist, who revived his profession in the 1970s, when he
was asked by Ulrich Gregor to accompany silent films in the Arsenal theatre
in Berlin, Germany.