Heinrich sutermeister wikipedia
Heinrich Sutermeister (12 August – 16 March ) was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia....
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Heinrich Sutermeister (born Feuerthalen, 12 August 1910 – died Vaux-sur-Morges, 16 March, 1995) was a Swisscomposer.
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.
Heinrich Sutermeister (born Feuerthalen, 12 August – died Vaux-sur-Morges, 16 March, ) was a Swiss composer.
During the following years Sutermeister made operas for the radio and television.
Works
[change | change source]- 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 un