Hermann Reutter composed several operas, orchestral works, and chamber music, and especially many lieder, setting poems by authors writing in German, Russian, Spanish, Icelandic, English, and ancient Egyptian and Greek, among others.
18 Facts About Hermann Reutter
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Hermann Reutter was director of Dr Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt from 1936 to 1945 and of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart from 1956 to 1966.
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Hermann Reutter then taught master classes, regularly at the Musikhochschule Munchen and at universities in the US, Europe, and Japan.
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Hermann Reutter founded the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart in 1968, serving as its president until his death.
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Hermann Reutter moved to Munich in 1920 and studied voice with Karl Erler and then, at the Musikhochschule Munchen, piano with Franz Dorfmuller, organ with Ludwig Mayer, and composition with Walter Courvoisier.
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Hermann Reutter took part in the Donaueschingen Festival from 1923 and had contact to the "Donaueschingen circle", especially to Paul Hindemith.
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Hermann Reutter focused on lied recitals as an accompanist from 1929, working with notable singers and conductors of the period.
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In 1932, Hermann Reutter was appointed principal composition professor at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
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Hermann Reutter composed the opera Lubecker Totentanz based on the art work at the Marienkirche in Lubeck.
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Hermann Reutter took part in the inaugural Ferienkurse fur internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, and accompanied Henny Wolff in selections from Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, songs from Ernst Krenek's Reisetagebuch, Op.
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In 1950, Hermann Reutter composed a "Hymne an Deutschland" which President Theodor Heuss suggested as the national anthem, but it was not chosen.
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Hermann Reutter served as a juror of the ARD International Music Competition from 1956, and later as chairman of the jury in the category Singing.
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Hermann Reutter became the director of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart in 1956 and director emeritus in 1966.
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Hermann Reutter taught internationally from 1960 in master classes at several universities in the US, Europe and Japan.
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Hermann Reutter held a master class for lied at the Musikhochschule Munchen from 1966 to 1974.
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Hermann Reutter founded the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart in 1968, and served as its president.
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Hermann Reutter received, among others, the Ludwig Spohr Award of Braunschweig in 1953, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, an honorary doctorate from the Music and Arts Institute in San Francisco in 1976, and the Hugo Wolf Medal of the International Hugo Wolf Society in Vienna the same year.
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Hermann Reutter set poems by various Russian authors, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Ruckert, Federico Garcia Lorca, Icelandic poems, Friedrich Holderlin, ancient Egyptian poems, Goethe, Sappho and Langston Hughes, among many others.