Sutermeister, Heinrich

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Sutermeister, Heinrich (b Feuerthalen, 1910; d Morges, 1995). Swiss composer. Worked as répétiteur at Berne Stadttheater. Taught comp. at Hanover Hochschule für Musik 1963–75. Influenced by Verdi's last works and by Orff, determined to write melodic 20th-cent mus. Works incl.:OPERAS: Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider), radio opera (1936, rev. for stage 1948); Romeo und Julia (after Shakespeare, 1939); Die Zauberinsel (The Magic Island, after Shakespeare's Tempest, 1942); Niobe (1946); Raskolnikoff (after Dostoyevsky, 1945–7); Der rote Stiefel (The Red Shoe) (1951); Titus Feuerfuchs (1957–8); Seraphine (after Rabelais, 1959); Das Gespenst von Canterville (The Canterville Ghost (after Wilde), TV, 1962–3); Madame Bovary (after Flaubert, 1966–7); Das Flaschenteufel (TV, 1971); Le roi Bérenger (after Ionesco, 1985).ORCH.: suite, Romeo und Julia (1940); Die Alpen (1948); Divertimento No.1 for str. (1936), No.2 for orch. (1959–60); Serenade (1970); 3 pf. concs. (1944, 1954, 1961–2); vc. conc. (1954–5).CHORAL: 8 Cantatas (1938–1966); Requiem, sop., bar., ch., orch. (1952); Te Deum (1975).

Also songs with pf./orch., pf. pieces, etc.

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