The first extensive study of the life and music of the Swiss
composer, Richard Flury (1896-1967). The late-Romantic composer
Richard Flury (1896-1967) was born in Biberist, a tiny town outside
the Baroque city of Solothurn in northern Switzerland. He went to
school in Solothurn, later taught there, conducted its orchestra,
andhad his operas and ballets performed at the local theatre by its
semi-professional ensemble. But Flury was more than just another
conservative composer stuck in the provinces. His teachers included
Ernst Kurth and JosephMarx of Vienna, and his music was performed
by conductors such as Felix Weingartner and Hermann Scherchen and
star instrumentalists like Wilhelm Backhaus and Georg Kulenkampff.
His first opera was conducted by a former student ofBerg and
Schoenberg who became his staunch advocate, and during the Second
World War Flury worked closely with several Jewish emigre writers
and musicians from Germany and Czechoslovakia. In his music of the
early 1930s, the influence of Berg and Hindemith became apparent as
Flury dabbled in modernism and free tonality before moving back to
a more traditionalist stance; but he was also a fine tunesmith who
loved writing Viennese waltzes and violin miniatures after the
manner of Kreisler. In both his aesthetic and his career, Flury
offers a fascinating case of a man negotiating constantly between
the centre and the periphery - and composing some very good music
in the process.The book includes a 23 track CD of Flury's music.
CHRIS WALTON teaches music history at the Basel University of Music
in Switzerland. He is the author of Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works
(2009) and Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place (2007).
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