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Hermann Suter (28 April 1870 – 22 June 1926) was aSwiss composer and conductor.

Born inKaiserstuhl,Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel,Stuttgart andLeipzig, underHans Huber andCarl Reinecke. He was an organist and conductor in Zurich from 1892 to 1902, after which he moved toBasel, where he lived to his death. He was director of theBasel Conservatory from 1918 to 1921. One of his pupils at Basel wasRichard Tauber who sang three of his songs at the Olten Music Festival in June 1912.^[1]

Suter's compositions contain echoes ofBrahms, Strauss, Mahler, and many other composers whom Suter conducted at Basel. Much of his output is for chorus, both accompanied and unaccompanied; the best-known of his works is theoratorioLe Laudi (The Praises) orLe Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi, based on theCanticle of the Sun, written in the summer of 1923 in Plaun da Lej, inEngadine, and premiered on 13 June 1924 in Basel. By 1930 the oratorio had been performed over eighty times in nearly as many cities.Wilhelm Furtwängler led theVienna premiere, and the work was acclaimed inParis,Stockholm,Berlin,Hamburg,Leipzig,Cologne, and a host of smaller German cities. Other compositions include asymphony (1914), aviolin concerto (1921), threestring quartets (1901, 1910, 1921), asextet for strings (1920), and numerous songs.

• The first US performance ofLe Laudi may have been in 1930 at St. Mark's Church, New York City.
• The first professional performance ofLe Laudi in the US was in June, 2000, at theNeal S. Blaisdell Center, Honolulu.
• TheAmerican Symphony Orchestra gave the US Premiere of Suter's Violin Concerto, Op. 23 in 2008.^[2]
• The UK premiere ofLe Laudi took place in Cambridge on 21 June 2009.

• Works by or about Hermann Suter at theInternet Archive
• Free scores by Hermann Suter at theInternational Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• TheMutopia Project has compositions byHermann Suter

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