- Heinrich Sutermeister
Heinrich Sutermeister (born
Feuerthalen ,12 August ,1910 – diedVaux-sur-Morges ,16 March ,1995 ) was a Swissopera composer .During the early 1930s he was a student at the
Akademie der Tonkunst inMunich whereCarl Orff was his teacher and Orff remained a powerful influence on his music. Returning to Switzerland in the mid 1930s, he devoted his life to composition. His most successful work was "Romeo und Julia ", premiered in Dresden in 1940 underKarl Böhm . He subsequently wrote operas for the radio, including "Die schwarze Spinne ", and television.Works
* "Max und Moritz", ballet after
Wilhelm Busch
* "Die schwarze Spinne", 'Funkoper' afterJeremias Gotthelf , 1936
*"Romeo und Julia", opera afterWilliam Shakespeare , 1940
*"Die Zauberinsel", opera after Shakespeare, 1942
*"1. Piano Concerto", 1943
*"Niobe", 'Monodram', 1946
*"Capriccio for unaccompanied Clarinet in A",1946
*"Raskolnikoff", opera afterFyodor Dostoevsky , 1948
*"Die Alpen", fantasy on Swiss folksongs, 1948
*"Der rote Stiefel", opera, 1951
*"2. Piano Concerto", 1953
*"Missa da Requiem", 1953
*"1. Cello Concerto", 1954-55
*"Titus Feuerfuchs oder Die Liebe, Tücke und Perücke", opera, 1958
*"3. Piano Concerto", 1961-62
*"Das Gespenst von Canterville", play with music for television afterOscar Wilde , 1962-63
*"Poème funèbre - En mémoire de Paul Hindemith" for string orchestra, 1965
*"Omnia ad Unum", cantata, 1965-66
*"Madame Bovary", opera afterGustave Flaubert , 1967
*"2. Cello Concerto", 1971
*"Te Deum", 1975
*"Clarinet Concerto", 1975-76
*"Consolatio philosophiae", 'Scène dramatique', 1979
*"Le roi Bérenger", opera afterEugène Ionesco , 1985References
*Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), "The Oxford Dictionary of Opera", 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
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