Ernest Sauter
Ernest Sauter ( born July 9, 1928 in Munich, † December 8, 2013 ) was a German composer.
Life
After early childhood in Munich in 1935, the move to Leipzig. During this time the right-wing conservative parents gave only the music of Viennese Classicism and German Romanticism to Richard Wagner and avoided any influence of contemporary music. First impressions of newer music, the composer Felix Petyrek mediated, in whose house the adolescent received piano lessons. The visit of St. Thomas School (Bach care) sensitized his hearing. When the war ended on the run in the native city, almost all of the first attempts at writing were lost or destroyed. Was rescued in your hand luggage strings match.
1947 after graduating from high school Sauter began piano studies in Munich at the Academy of Music, which he however had to break from a financial predicament in 1949. In the context of private studies at his piano teacher Prof. Maria State Hindemith, he received a new impetus to compose by her husband Rudolf Hindemith - but in too few progressive direction - whose criticism of the " Musica Viva " (Karl Amadeus Hartmann) finally led to a rift.
End of the fifties was Sauter's encounter with the art form of ballet guest performances by the Berlin Ballet and American companies of the opportunity to join the newly founded "Young Ballet Company ( JBC, German Ballet Theatre, Bonn); thereby initially outweighed commissioned works such as arrangements (It was a delicious time, Bavaria Hall, BR Munich), instrumentation ( Bizet, Jeux d' enfants ). He wrote for JBC first ballet Blue Jeans ( TV recording of the SR ). The resolution of the JBC caused as a result a new material and psychological crisis; unpublished works were destroyed due to self-criticism of him.
1965 came to Sauter by Yvonne Georgi, ballet boss at the Opera House Hannover a commission to compose a new ballet (Finale ). Despite the successful performance of the sudden resignation Georgis from the university and theater service prevented further deepening and binding to this new sphere. In 1976, within a series of lectures realization of a composition in collaboration between sound engineer and composer ( in the recording studio Staatl. Academy of Music and Theater, Hannover ) to the mirror story by Ilse Aichinger a scenic music in four-channel system ( " reassembly "), which was premiered in 1977 on the occasion of the Days of new Music in Hannover. Were followed in 1978 as a requiem for a dancer by Germinal Casado a staging of this tape music for dancers at the city's State Theatre, which has become a long-lasting success.
Concerns to be classified as a "new man of the ballet", and the desire to preserve their own independence, and perhaps also the desire to "be somewhere else," were the reasons for the decision of the composers to move to the south of France. Thanks to the understanding and the use of some friends, especially by GMD George Alexander Albrecht in Hanover, it was possible to work in solitude and tranquility of Provence, without losing contact with the outside world. Here was the first major work in 1983/84, the full-length ballet Till Eulenspiegel by de Coster's novel La Légende d' Ulenspiegle (again, as commissioned by the Lower Saxony State Opera Hannover). 1986 started off with the Sauter in the dentelles - near Orange and Avignon - situated village Suzette as a new residence. Here he wrote his first, Gerhard Oppitz dedicated Piano Concerto ( Russian Concert ), which was successfully premiered by the dedicatee occasion of Tchaikovsky in 1993 in Hanover.
The desire also to create their own field of activity in the new adopted country, was the mainspring of every year to organize in the summer in the small mountain church of Suzette under acoustically excellent conditions concerts for smaller chamber ensembles: Sauter founded the festival MUSIQUE D' ETE À with the objective of an interested audience not only the classical works but also contemporary composers ( Penderecki, Ligeti, Schnittke, among others ) to offer SUZETTE. After several years of development work so that was also the composer the opportunity to write their own works for this frame and have it performed by outstanding performers as dedicated example Verra La Morte, soprano Christina Ascher and the Szymanowski Quartet, or the three string trios, the dedicated German String Trio.
Works (selection)
Compositions
All information published compositions by Ernest Sauter are archived at the European Center for the Arts Hellerau, German composer archive.