In 1947 after passing his university entrance diploma Sauter began studying piano at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich.
Over time this influence was too less progressive and led to a discord based on Hindemiths criticism of the musica viva concert series founded by Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1945.
In the late fifties Sauter discovered the ballet genre and joined the Junge Ballett Compagnie (JBC, Deutsches Ballett-Theater, Bonn) where he first did arrangements "Es war eine köstliche Zeit" broadcast by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and instrumentations (Bizet, Jeux d’enfants).
The "Requiem für eine Tänzerin" a "Tape Music for Dancers" produced by Germinal Casado followed in 1978 and was a long running great success Sauter had concerns to be rated solely as a ballet composer.
Thanks to the support of his friends, foremost of the conductor George Alexander Albrecht, Sauter was able to get to work in the solitude and quietness of the Provence without losing the connection to the outside world.