What is Heinrich Sutermeister?
[[File:Heinrich Sutermeister 1982.jpg|thumb|Heinrich Sutermeister (1982)]] '''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 ''[[:de:Die_schwarze_Spinne_(Oper)|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 [[opera]]s 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== * [http://www.schott-music.com/autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3557.html Composers Sch