Richard Flury, a Swiss composer, was introduced to music at a very early age within his musical family.
Recording & Production
This recording was funded by the Richard Flury Stiftung, a foundation and society set up by Richard Flury's son, Urs Joseph Flury, to propagate his father's works.
Cultural Impact
A biography of Richard Flury published in 2017, on the 50th anniversary of his death, proves him to have been one of Switzerland's most prolific composers, working in all musical genres.
Compositional Technique
Richard Flury's orchestral works are noted for imaginative harmonies, transparent and inventive scoring, and often display Impressionistic traits, sometimes venturing to the boundaries of tonality.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Richard Flury was committed to late Romanticism, viewing music as a language of emotions and an art form averse to anything purely constructivist.
Composer Biography
Richard Flury studied musicology, art history, and philosophy at universities in Bern, Basel, and Geneva, while also taking violin lessons at conservatories in those cities.
Composer Biography
Despite working in a provincial town, Richard Flury's significance was acknowledged by many prominent musicians of his time, including Wilhelm Backhaus, Pau Casals, Richard Strauss, and Felix Weingartner.
