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.

Arthur Kusterer (1945)

Life

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

References
  1. Joachim Draheim: Karlsruher Musikgeschichte. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, p. 45. ISBN 3-88190-357-7.
  2. Ursula Heukenkamp: Unterm Notdach: Nachkriegsliteratur in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 461. ISBN 3-503-03736-5.

Further reading
  • Joachim Draheim: Arthur Kusterer (1898–1967): Biographie und Werkverzeichnis. Süddeutscher Musikverlag W. Müller, Heidelberg 1983.
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