Hermann Suter

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Hermann Suter (April 28, 1870 - June 22, 1926), was a Swiss composer and conductor.

Born in Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an organist and conductor in Zurich from 1892 to 1902, after which he moved to Basel, where he lived to his death. He was director of the Basel Conservatory from 1918 to 1921.

Suter's compositions are indebted to Brahms. Much of his output is for chorus, both accompanied and unaccompanied; the best-known of these is the 1925 oratorio Le laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi. Other compositions include a symphony (1914), a violin concerto (1924), three string quartets (1901, 1910, 1921), a sextet for strings (1920), and numerous songs.