Arthur Kusterer
Arthur Kusterer (14 June 1898 – 23 December 1967) was a German composer and conductor. His best-known work is his opera adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Life[edit]
Born in Karlsruhe, Kusterer attended from 1913 until 1916 the Badisches Konservatorium there. He worked from 1917 until 1919 as a pianist and répétiteur at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Until 1936, he lived as a freelance composer in his home town and had success on "many German stages" with stage works in the Spieloper genre, such as Was ihr wollt and Diener zweier Herren.[1] On 16 August 1945, at the reopening of the Friedenau Theatre in Rheinstraße in Berlin, Kusterer conducted Rossini's The Barber of Seville.[2] From 1950 until 1958 he was musical director at the Komische Oper Berlin.
Kusterer died in Altensteig.
Works[edit]
- Der kleine Klaus und der große Klaus, opera after Andersen (1927)
- Was ihr wollt, opera after Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1932 in Dresden)
- Diener zweier Herren, three act opera after Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters (1936 in Freiburg)
- Katarina, opera (premiere 1939 in Berlin)
- Gloriolus, comic opera in two acts after Miles Gloriosus by Plautus (composed in 1955–61)
- Konzert für Streichorchester (1950, Ludwigsburg Festival)
References[edit]
- ^ Joachim Draheim: Karlsruher Musikgeschichte. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, p. 45. ISBN 3-88190-357-7.
- ^ Ursula Heukenkamp: Unterm Notdach: Nachkriegsliteratur in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 461. ISBN 3-503-03736-5.
Further reading[edit]
- Joachim Draheim: Arthur Kusterer (1898–1967): Biographie und Werkverzeichnis. Süddeutscher Musikverlag W. Müller, Heidelberg 1983.
External links[edit]
Media related to Arthur Kusterer at Wikimedia Commons- Literature by and about Arthur Kusterer in the German National Library catalogue
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