Wallfisch was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, in 1924. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine; he studied at the Jerusalem Conservatoire, and was later a teacher there. In the late 1940s, he studied in Paris with Marguerite Long.Hans Peter Wallfisch Royal College of Music. Retrieved 31 October 2018. In 1948, he won the first prize of the Béla Bartók Competition in Budapest.
