Heinrich Sutermeister

Born: August 12th, 1910

Died: March 16th, 1995

Country of origin: Switzerland

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Sutermeister was born in Feuerthalen (Schaffhausen) on 12 August 1910. After first philological studies in Basle (Music History with Karl Neff and German Literature) and a short academic stay at Paris he studied from 1932 to 1934 at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts as a pupil of Walter Courvoisier (Harmonics and Counterpoint) and Hugo Röhr (Conducting) as well as with Carl Orff. He was for a short time opera coach at the Berne Municipal Theatre before settling at Vaux-sur-Morges, on Lake Geneva, as a freelance composer.

Operas, partly written for radio and TV, and ballets, all the stage works world-wide performed at the most important opera houses and ballet companies, and orchestral music as well as chamber and vocal music demonstrate the wide range of Sutermeister’s musical oeuvre.

In 1958 he was made president of the Swiss Association for Mechanical Copyrights "Mechanlizenz", a post he held until 1980. From 1963 to 1975 he was in charge of a composition class at the Hannover Hochschule fuer Musik. In 1967 he was awarded the Price of the Swiss Composers Association. Since 1977 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Fine Arts Academy.

Heinrich Sutermeister died in Vaux-sur-Morges (Waadt District) on 16 March 1995.

1910

Born on 12 August in Feuerthalen (near Schaffhausen)

Attends grammar school in Basel

Studies music history wirh Karl Neff, and German literature

Piano lessons with Charlotte Schrameck

Study visit in Paris

1931

Studies at the "Akademie der Tonkünste", Munich, with Walter Courvoisier (harmony and counterpoint) and Hugo Röhr (conducting)

1934

Coach at the Stadttheater Bern

1940

First performance of "Romeo und Julia" in Dresden

1942

First performance of "Die Zauberinsel" in Dresden

1946

First performance of "Niobe" in Zürich

1948

First performance of "Raskolnikoff" in Stockholm

13 April Marries Verena Renker

First performance of "Die schwarze Spinne" in St. Gallen

1951

First performance of "Der rote Stiefel" in Stockholm

1953

First performance of "Missa da Requiem" in Rome with Herbert von Karajan

1958

First performance of "Titus Feuerfuchs" in Basel

Appointed president of "Schweizerische Mechanlizenz" (until 1980)

1962

Award-winner of the "Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs dramatiques"

1963

Teaches a composition class at the "Staatliche Hochschule für Musik", Hannover

1965

Opera Award of the City of Salzburg

1967

First performance od "Madame Bovary" in Zürich

Award by the "Schweizerischen Tonkünstlerverein"

1968

16 June Birth of daughter Anna-Katharina

1975

First performance of "Ecclesia" in Lausanne Cathedral

since 1977

Member of the "Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste"

1985

First performance of "Le Roi Bérenger" in Munich

1991

Is awarded the "Prix de la Fondation Pierre et Louisa Meylan" in Lausanne

First performance of "Gloria" in Morges with Pierre Arn

1995

Heinrich Sutermeister dies on 16 March in Morges (canton Waadt)

12 zweistimmige Inventionen

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : piano

Order No. : ED 8004

€24.00 *
Concertino

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : clarinet (B), bassoon, trumpet (F), horn (F), tenortrombone and piano

Edition : score and parts

Order No. : ED 8079

€50.00 *
String Quartet No. 3

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : string quartet

Edition : score and parts

Order No. : ED 8987

€36.50 *
Capriccio

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : clarinet (A)

Order No. : ED 10401

€5.50 *
Divertimento Nr. 1

für Streichorchester

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : string orchestra

Edition : performance material
Divertimento Nr. 2

für Orchester

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : orchestra

Edition : performance material
Romeo und Julia

Sinfonische Suite aus der Oper

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : large orchestra

Edition : performance material
Die Alpen

Fantasie über Schweizer Volkslieder

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : orchestra with obligatory speaker

Edition : performance material

Language : German
Marche fantasque

für großes Orchester

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : large orchestra

Edition : performance material
Poème funèbre

En mémoire de Paul Hindemith

Composer : Sutermeister, Heinrich

Instrumentation : string orchestra

Edition : performance material

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