Name Heinrich Sutermeister | Libretti Romeo und Julia | |
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Died March 16, 1995, Morges, Switzerland Compositions Romeo und Julia, Romeo und Julia, La arana negra, La arana negra, Die Zauberinsel, Die Zauberinsel, Titus Feuerfuchs, Titus Feuerfuchs Similar People Arthur Honegger, Othmar Schoeck, Hermann Suter, Werner Egk, Volkmar Andreae | ||
Heinrich sutermeister poe me fune bre en m moire de paul hindemith 1965
Heinrich Sutermeister (born Feuerthalen, 12 August 1910 – died Vaux-sur-Morges, 16 March 1995) was a Swiss opera composer.
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- Heinrich sutermeister poe me fune bre en m moire de paul hindemith 1965
- Sutermeister Capriccio
- Life and career
- Stage and broadcast works
- Concert chamber and religious music
- References
Sutermeister: Capriccio
Life and career
During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich where Carl 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. He wrote some works for the radio, starting with Die schwarze Spinne in 1936, before turning later to television opera. His most successful stage work was Romeo und Julia, premiered in Dresden in 1940 under Karl Böhm.
Sutermeister's penultimate stage work, Madame Bovary, first given in Zurich in 1967, is loosely based on Flaubert's novel. With many characters cut, it consists largely of monologues for Emma Bovary, who was sung by Anneliese Rothenberger.
For his final opera, he adapted Eugène Ionesco's play Exit the King (Le Roi se meurt). According to musicologist Elizabeth Forbes, this opera, premiered in 1985 at Bavarian State Opera, with only six characters, a tiny chorus and small orchestra, this work, in its modest way, is as effective as anything Sutermeister wrote.
He was the brother of Hans Martin Sutermeister; their grandfather was the folklorist Otto Sutermeister.