Sommer, Hans (1837–1922)

German composer. He studied at Göttingen University where he became a professor of physics. In 1875 he became director of the Technical High School at Brunswick; he settled in Berlin in 1885, at Weimar in 1888, and in 1898 returned to Brunswick. He had been composing as an amateur since before 1865, when he produced his first opera.

Works Operas Der Nachtwächter (1865), Loreley (1891), Saint-Foix, Der Meermann, Augustin, Münchhausen, Rübezahl (1904), Riquet mit dem Schopf (1907) and Der Waldschratt (1912).

Vocal song cycles from Julius Wolff's ‘Der wilde Jäger’ (Mädchenlieder), Hunold Singuf and Tannhäuser, from Carmen Sylva's Sappho and many other songs.