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Alice Samter

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schools where she began to compose school opera. After she retired from teaching in 1970, she became a composer full-time. She was a member of several organizations of composers, including GEDOK Berlin, the International Working Group on Women and Music and the International League of Woman Composers
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to a middle-class family. She trained and worked as an accountant while studying piano, improvisation, choral work and school music at Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and the Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1945 she received a degree in music and became a teacher in the
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Alice Samter's compositions include choral music, chamber music, six opera, three school opera, piano works and solo vocal music with instrumental accompaniment. Selected works include:
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Samter's family home was destroyed by a bomb during the war and she moved with her mother and adopted sister to an apartment in
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to support music students at the university. She also donated funds to the Berlin State Library for the purchase of
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where she continued to live for the rest of her life. She was the subject of documentary films through
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Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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In 1999 she established the Alice Samter Foundation at the
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"Composer: Alice Samter"
The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers
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9780393034875
"Alice Samter"
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Alice Samter Foundation
http://www.musicarara.de/
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