Heinrich Sutermeister

Heinrich Sutermeister (born Feuerthalen, 12 August 1910 – died Vaux-sur-Morges, 16 March,  1995) was a Swiss composer.

When he was young he was a student at the main music school in Munich, Germany, where the famous German composer Carl Orff was his teacher. Orff strongly influenced his music. Later he returned to Switzerland, where he lived as a composer.

His most important works are Romeo und Julia and Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Widow). Romeo und Julia has been played the first time in Dresden in 1940, under the famous conductor Karl Böhm. During the following years Sutermeister made operas for the radio and television.

 Works 
 Max und Moritz, ballet after Wilhelm Busch
 Die schwarze Spinne, 'Funkoper' after Jeremias Gotthelf, 1936
 Romeo und Julia, opera after William Shakespeare, 1940
 Die Zauberinsel, opera after Shakespeare, 1942
 1. Piano Concerto, 1943
 Niobe, 'Monodram', 1946
 Capriccio for unaccompanied Clarinet in A,1946
 Raskolnikoff, opera after Fyodor 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 after Oscar Wilde, 1962-63
 Poème funèbre - En mémoire de Paul Hindemith for string orchestra, 1965
 Omnia ad Unum, cantata, 1965-66
 Madame Bovary, opera after Gustave Flaubert, 1967
 2. Cello Concerto, 1971
 Te Deum, 1975
 Clarinet Concerto, 1975-76
 Consolatio philosophiae, 'Scène dramatique', 1979

Other websites
 Composers Schott-Music: Heinrich Sutermeister 

Category:1910 births
Category:1995 deaths
Category:Swiss composers
Category:20th-century composers
Category:People from the canton of Zürich