Peter Sutermeister

Peter Sutermeister (May 28, 1916 – January 3, 2003) was a Swiss lawyer, writer and opera librettist.

Sutermeister got his Ph.D at University of Bern. He wrote the texts for Heinrich Sutermeister's (his brother) operas Niobe and Raskolnikoff,[1][2] as well as biographies of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann. From 1953 to 1966 he was the Secretary–General of the Swiss National Science Foundation.[3]

Translation
  • John L. McHale. Athos: miraculous icons: introduction: Peter Sutermeister. Hallwag, 1968

References
  1. Schott Music - Raskolnikoff
  2. Musik: Raskolnikoff geteilt durch zwei: Mit viel Schlagzeug. In: Der Spiegel. Nr. 19, May 7, 1949.
  3. http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/pub_snf_festschrift_d.pdf


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