Background
Alice Samter was born in Berlin to a middle-class family.
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Alice Samter
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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 Spandau schools where she began to compose school opera. After she retired from teaching in 1970, she became a composer full-time.
In 1999 she established the Alice Samter Foundation at the Berlin University of the Arts to support music students at the university.
She also donated funds to the Berlin State Library for the purchase of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn manuscripts. She was the subject of documentary films through West German Broadcasting (WDR), and her papers are housed in the Berlin State Library.
She wrote her last song in 2003.
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Membership
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 (United States of America).
