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 Heinrich Sutermeister (12 August 1910 – 16 March 1995) was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera ''Romeo und Julia''. Life and career Sutermeister was born in Feuerthalen. During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der To ...

's (his brother) operas ''Niobe'' and ''Raskolnikoff'', as well as biographies of

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...

and

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

. From 1953 to 1966 he was the Secretary–General of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Translation

* John L. McHale. ''Athos: miraculous icons: introduction: Peter Sutermeister.'' Hallwag, 1968

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1916 births 2003 deaths University of Bern alumni {{Switzerland-law-bio-stub