Suite (1942)
Instrumentation: for violin and viola
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Suite No. 1 (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 11' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Improvisationen I (1944)
Instrumentation: for oboe and viola
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Suite No. 2 (1945)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 13' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Musical Diary No. 1 (1946/60)
Based on poems by Hofmannsthal and TraklInstrumentation: for alto, flute (picc), oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass
Duration: 30' 00"
edition modern München
Kleines Konzert (1948)
Instrumentation: for piano and chamber orchestra (2.0.1.0/1.0.0.0/timp.str)
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
Suite for strings (1949)
Duration: 20' 00"
edition modern München
Musical Diary No. 2 (1950)
Based on poems by Rückert, Jacobsen and HofmannsthalInstrumentation: for baritone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, violin, viola and violoncello
Texts: Friedrich Rückert, Jens Peter Jacobsen und Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Both diaries - each one with its own character - are loosely formed into sequences alternating as instrumental and vocal pieces. When heard together, the lyrical character of the whole shines through.
Duration: 20' 00"
edition modern München
Konrad von Donnerstadt (1950)
Musical fairytale
Instrumentation: for singing voice and small orchestra (1.0.0.0/0.1.0.0/pf/str)
Texts: R. Juillet
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript
Petite Suite (1950)
Instrumentation: for four-handed piano
Duration: 18' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Der fremde Baron (1951)
Musical comedyInstrumentation: for singing actor and two pianos
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
String quartet No. 1 (1952)
Three movements, slower movement than adagietto. Based on Schubert’s adagio in the string quintet.
Duration: 18' 00"
edition modern München
Petite Suite (1953)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (3(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).asx.1/0.4.2.0/2perc/hp/str)
Duration: 18' 00"
edition modern München
Sonatina for flute and piano (1954-1987)
Duration: 13' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Divertimento (1955)
Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Duration: 17' 00"
edition modern München
Inventionen (1956)
Instrumentation: for flute, violin and violoncello
Duration: 13' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Impromptu (1956)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/3timp/str)
Duration: 10' 00"
edition modern München
Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1957)
Duration: 7' 00"
Editions Henn
Lyrische Suite (1959)
Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (1.1.1.0/1.0.0.0/str)
This piece has no connection to the string quartet bearing the same name by Alban Berg.
Duration: 16' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Ballade von des Cortez Leuten. Nach der Ballade von Bert Brecht (1960)
Based on a ballad by Bert Brecht.Instrumentation: for speaking voice, mixed choir, speaking choir and chamber orchestra (1(pic).1.2(2bcl).0/1.1.1.1/3perc/hp/pf/str)
Texts: Bertolt Brecht
Can be understood as a fable on the subject of mans disrespect towards nature and natures fight back. The text is set in a kind of sonata form 'Exposition' and 'Reprise' represent the basic situation and the 'Durchführungen' represents the conflict between man and his environment.
Duration: 21' 00"
edition modern München
Estampida (1960)
Instrumentation: for one percussionist and seven instrumentalists (1(pic).0.1.0.bsx/1.1.1.0/db)
A virtuoso piece with a certain jazz-like flavour for a single solo percussionist.
Duration: 10' 00"
edition modern München
Heilige Leier, sprich, sei meine Stimme (1960)
Chamber cantataInstrumentation: for Soprano, flute and guitar
Texts: Altgriechisch
Text: Early Greek fragments.
Duration: 17' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Improvisationen II (1961)
Instrumentation: for oboe and viola
Duration: 12' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Vier Sätze (1961)
Instrumentation: for string trio
Very demanding in style and performance technique.
Duration: 15' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Quatre Etudes (1962)
Instrumentation: for wind quintet
Very difficult.
Duration: 14' 00"
Editions Henn
Two pieces for harpsichord (1962)
Duration: 7' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Am ungenauen Ort (1962)
radio play music
Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript
Serenata (1963-1964)
Instrumentation: for seven instruments: flute, oboe (oboe d'amore), clarinet (bass clarinet), harp and string trio
Requires excellent interplay. Musically demanding.
Duration: 20' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Fantasia (1964-1965)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, harp and string orchestra
Soloistic, concertante but actually symphonic.
Duration: 22' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Fanfares et Pastorales (1965)
Instrumentation: for two horns, trumpet and trombone
Stylistically demanding with technically precarious polyphony.
Duration: 12' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Ein Blatt aus sommerlichen Tagen (1965-1966)
Instrumentation: for three-part female choir
Texts: Theodor Storm
Duration: 10' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Sonatina (1966)
Instrumentation: for oboe, bassoon and harpsichord
Duration: 11' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Sonata for piano (1966-1967)
A discourse on the traditional three-movement piano sonata stamped with a personal tonal language. Virtuosic.
Duration: 15' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Sonata per orchestra (1967)
Instrumentation: (3(3pic).2(2ca).3(Ebcl,3bcl).2(2cbn)/4.3.3.1/4perc/hp.cel/str)
In sonata form challenging the tonal language of Suter in the 1960's. Three movements: fast - slow - fast. Freely shaped symmetries make it easier for the listener to follow the form.
Duration: 20' 00"
Bärenreiter Verlag Basel/Kassel
Cinque Duetti (1967)
Instrumentation: for flute and oboe
A virtuosic ensemble piece for lovers of canonical playing.
Duration: 12' 00"
Heinrichshofen's Verlag
Liebigstr. 16
D-26389 Wilhelmshaven
BRD
Epitaffio (1968)
Instrumentation: for brass (3tpt.3tbn), strings (thirteen-part) and percussion
Duration: 14' 00"
Bärenreiter Verlag Basel/Kassel
Trois Nocturnes (1968-1969)
Instrumentation: for viola and orchestra (1.1.2.2/4.0.0.0/4perc.cym/hp.cel. /gtr/str)
The harp, guitar, celesta and cymbal lend this piece a particular sonority. Although the guitar is a kind of accompaniment to the solo part it is also allowed a special relevance.
Duration: 30' 00"
Bärenreiter Verlag Basel/Kassel
Elegie (1969)
Instrumentation: for violoncello solo
Duration: 11' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Die sollen loben den Namen des Herrn (Psalm 148) (1971)
MotetInstrumentation: for mixed choir
Texts: Bibel / Liturgie
A quasi pantheistic hymn where the denomination free can also partake.
Duration: 14' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Pastorale d'hiver (1972)
Instrumentation: for horn (also two bongos), string trio, piano (also crotale with metal staff and a drum brush)
From an amorphous stiffness an articulated, musical process frees itself, gradually thawing and freezing again. The horn player and pianist can handle the smaller percussion instruments quite easily.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.
Duration: 17' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Airs et Ritournelles (1973)
Instrumentation: for percussion and instrumental groups (six solo percussionists, three clarinets (in E-flat, B and bass clarinet), two saxophones (alto and baritone), three trumpets, three trombones, two pianos, celesta and six double-bass (including five stringed)
A concertante executed piece with multifaceted tonal and rhythmical evolvements.
Duration: 18' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Postlude for organ (1974)
From the greatest sound development and tightest movements to inaudibility and complete cessation of movement.
Duration: 8' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Music for flute and guitar (1975)
Duration: 12' 00"
Edition Kunzelmann
Grütstr. 28
CH-8134 Adliswil
Sonate (1975)
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and percussion
Duration: 16' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Selbstvergessenheit (1975)
Instrumentation: for medium singing voice and guitar
Texts: Klabund
Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript
Music for Orchestra (1975-1976)
Instrumentation: (3(pic,afl).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cbn)/6.3.4.0/4perc/hp/gtr/str)
Duration: 28' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"...aber auch lobet den Himmel" (1976)
Choral balladInstrumentation: for Tenor, Baritone, Bass, male choir, boys choir and instrumental ensemble (0.0.0.0/4.3.3.1/4perc.8db)
Texts: Bertolt Brecht
In regard to the text and performers, singers and players this is a piece exclusively for males.
Duration: 22' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Jeux à quatre (1976)
Instrumentation: for saxophone quartet
Plays also in very contrast rich composition types: free tonal development, monorhythm, mensuration canon and a virtuosic finale.
Duration: 14' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
La Scesa (1977)
Instrumentation: for three clarinet players and one guitar (clarinets in Eb, B and A, two basset horns, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet)
Descending from an extremely high to an extremely low sound register, gradual slowing of a ground tempo, sweeps from high volume to barely audible breathing. Guitar has cadenzas in free metre.
Duration: 14' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Contrapunti (1977)
3 x 2 EtudesInstrumentation: for violin and piano
Duration: 12' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Conversazioni concertanti (1978)
Instrumentation: for s and a saxophone, vibraphone (also a small percussion) and a twelve-part string orchestra
Both soloists require specialist knowledge of certain modern playing techniques.
Duration: 19' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Sarabande (1978)
Metamorphoses of a themeInstrumentation: for piano
Duration: 10' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"Der Abwesende Gott" (1978)
Ein (An-)KlagegesangInstrumentation: for soprano, tenor, speaking voice, two mixed choirs, speaking choir and large orchestra (3.3.3.3/6.4.8.0/4perc/hp/str)
Texts: Paul Celan, Carl Amery
Duration: 28' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Deutsche Chansons (1978)
Instrumentation: for singing voice and piano accompaniment
Texts: Otto Julius Bierbaum, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Frank Wedekind
Based on poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Rudolf Alexander Schröder and Frank Wedekind. An attempt to arouse a little bit of a cabaret atmosphere.
Duration: 20' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
L'art pour l'art. Music for Orchestra (1979)
Music for orchestraInstrumentation: (3(2afl,3pic).3(3ca).3(3bcl).3(3cbn)/4.3.3.1/3perc/hp/gtr/str)
The title here stands for a sort of declaration of what music means to the author and the meaning it may portray to others. Only music can tell that which is inherent in it. Experience has shown that this is very important.
Duration: 16' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
De l'un à l'autre (1980)
EtudeInstrumentation: for bassoon and piano
Duration: 9' 00"
Editions Henn
Marcia funebre (1980-1981)
Instrumentation: for large orchestra (3(pic,afl).3(ca).3.bthn.3(cbn)/6.4.4.1/4perc/3hp/3gtr/min:14.12.10.8.6/3 high tpt extra), three sopranos and electronic tape
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Vergänglichkeit der Schönheit (1982-1983)
Instrumentation: for alto, tenor, baritone and nineteen Baroque instruments
Texts: William Shakespeare, Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Francesco Petrarca
Based on sonnets by Shakespeare, Hoffmannswaldau and Petrarca with an instrumental prelude and postlude.
Duration: 18' 30"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
My true love hath my heart (1983)
Five English songsInstrumentation: for Soprano and guitar
Texts: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Fletcher, Benjamin Johnson, Sir Philip Sidney
A male choir stapled rondo-like as a prelude, intermezzo and postlude to the guitar play. Based on texts by Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Fletcher, Benjamin Johnson and Sir Philip Sidney.
Duration: 17' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
E + A (1983)
Instrumentation: for organ
Duration: 9' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Concerto grosso (1984)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/3.2.1.0/2perc/str)
Pastiche using typical baroque music formulae: kinetic impetus, ostinato, differing instrumentations, alternating focus on soli and tutti etc. Melody and harmony however, are freed of historic reference through a self-refined ordering of tonal intervals.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.
Duration: 15' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Cérémonie (1984)
Instrumentation: for six percussionists
Duration: 10' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Small talk (1984)
Instrumentation: for alto recorder and guitar
Duration: 8' 30"
Schott Musik International
Mouvements (1985)
Instrumentation: for wind orchestra
Duration: 12' 30"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Nine Psalms. (1986)
Based on texts by Thomas BernhardInstrumentation: for middle-low singing voice and piano
Texts: Thomas Bernhard
An experiment in musical dialogue with a textual challenge.
Duration: 22' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Bhalt du mi allewyl lieb (1986)
Instrumentation: for mixed boy's choir and wind ensemble
Texts: Fritz Liebrich
Duration: 19' 00"
Manuscript
String sextet (1987)
Single movement, but clearly structured by contrasting tempi throughout.
Duration: 17' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Dialogo (1987)
Instrumentation: for violin solo
A musical piece with a kind of playful discourse between two opposing characters.
Duration: 9' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
"Grüezi" (1987)
A Greeting PréludeInstrumentation: for large wind orchestra setting
Duration: 3' 10"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
String quartet No. 2 (1988)
Musical ‘action’ in three movements: 1. Athematic, implements an intervallic bound motive, 2. Springs from a single melodic idea; 3. Fleeing, urgent, moving and culminating in the abrupt entrance of hard percussive chords, stagnating conclusion - no way out.
Duration: 21' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Pulsation (1990)
Instrumentation: for one percussionist
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Capriccio (1990-1991)
Concert
Instrumentation: for marimba, piano and instrumental ensemble with wind instruments, percussion and deep strings
Duration: 32' 00"
Manuscript
5 Duos (1990-1993)
Instrumentation: for violin and viola
Duration: 14' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
A la recherche du son perdu (1993)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2(1afl,2pic).2(2ca).2(1Ebcl,2bcl).2(2cbn)/4.2.0.0/2perc/str)
The quest by a contemporary musician for 'the sound', the one 'absolute' music, and the specific language and means of communication that lies within it.
Duration: 15' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Arietta notturna (1993)
Instrumentation: for four intrumentalists (contrabass clarinet, violoncello, guitar and percussion)
An extraordinary instrumental scoring which requires the unrehearsed fantasy of the composers.
Duration: 8' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Una piccola trasformazione giocosa (1994)
Instrumentation: for guitar solo
Once again: A theme with variations. Playful, finesse-full and guitaresque!
Duration: 11' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Marcia funebre (Neufassung) (1994)
Instrumentation: for large orchestra (3.3.3.3(almost all doubling)/6.4.4.1/4perc/3hp/3gtr/14.12.10.8.6) three soprano voices and electronic sounds
Duration: 25' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Nelson-Arie "Ausania Trembling" (Joseph Haydn) (1994)
Instrumentation: scored for a medium voice and small orchestra (2.2.0.2/2.2.0.0/str)
Duration: 12' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Concertino lirico (1994-1995)
Instrumentation: for saxophone and chamber orchestra (2.0.2.0/2.2.2.1/3perc/str)
Duration: 17' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Flamme der Liebe, bleibe mein Licht (1994-1995)
Instrumentation: for vocal quartet and organ
Texts: David Schirmer
Based on a poem by David Schirmer (1623-1686) taken from ‘Poetische Rosengepüsche’ (1657).
The first four strophes of a poem in five strophes are sung individually and in an alternating manner by the tenor, alto, soprano and baritone. It is only in the last strophe that the group unite as a quartet.
Duration: 13' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Darf ich bitten (1995)
Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet
A playful, dance-like homage.
Duration: 7' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Music for violoncello and piano (1995)
A music piece in free form developed as a dialogue between two instruments using the characteristic sound and technique possibilities of the respective instruments as a means of communication.
Duration: 14' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Arie e Danze (1996)
Instrumentation: for oboe and cymbal
Duration: 15' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Une petite poesie intime (1997)
Instrumentation: for flute
Duration: 10' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Musikalisches Tagebuch Nr. 3. Nach Gedichten von Szymborska, Loerke und Neruda (1998)
Based on poems by Szymborska, Loerke and NerudaInstrumentation: for two singing voices (ST) and ten instruments (fl(afl).ob(obdam).cl(bcl).bn/hn/perc/gtr/va.vc.db)
Duration: 25' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Concertino (1998)
Instrumentation: for piano and chamber orchestra (wind quintet, percussion and strings, min. (10.8.6.4)
Duration: 17' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Notturno appassionato (1998-1999)
Instrumentation: for alto solo
Duration: 5' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Jeux d'après un ballet imaginaire (1999)
Instrumentation: for percussion solo and large orchestra (3.2.3.4sx.2/0.3.3.1/4perc/12.12.10.8.8)
An improvising soloist (Fritz Hauser) with a severely through-composed orchestral piece.
Duration: 25' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Brecht-Lieder (1992-1999)
Instrumentation: for four-part male choir and two percussion players
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
Oh-Boe (1999)
Instrumentation: for oboe solo
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Coming together (2000)
Instrumentation: for violin, trombone and piano
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Quartet (2000)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, violoncello, guitar and percussion
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
Siamo in tre (2001)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, violoncello and piano
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
Aria per archi (2001)
Instrumentation: for string orchestra (6.6.4.4.2)
Duration: 18' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Musik für Kammer-Ensemble (2002)
Instrumentation: for baritone and string sextet (2.2.1.1)
Texts: Achim von Arnim
Duration: 17' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Improvisation 21/11/03 (2003)
Instrumentation: for percussion and piano
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Sinfonietta (2004)
Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (0.2.0.1/2.0.0.0/2.1.1.1)
Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript
Das Spiel der Holzbläser (2004)
Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Duration: 11' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Liebeslieder (2004)
Instrumentation: for tenor and guitar
Texts: Erich Fried
Duration: 11' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Pourquoi pas? (2004)
Instrumentation: for flute solo
Duration: 6' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Haefeli, Anton: Der Komponist, Musikdenker und Lehrer Robert Suter (1919-2008), in:
Dissonanz 103 (2008), S. 48f [
Internet]
Moser, Roland: Kleine Laudatio für Robert Suter, in:
Dissonanz 85 (2004)