The Colla Parte Quartet, founded in 1997 by musicians from the Bern Symphony Orchestra, explores contemporary repertoire and has given several premieres in addition to classical and romantic works.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Richard Flury was a remarkably prolific composer, with four operas, five symphonies, four violin concertos, and eleven violin sonatas among his many works.
Composer Biography
Flury's main lifelong source of income was teaching violin in Solothurn schools and working as a freelance orchestral musician, not composing.
Composer Biography
Richard Flury, born in 1896 in Biberist, Switzerland, came from a musical family; his father, a watchmaker and restaurateur, organized an amateur orchestra that included his children.
Composition History
The string quartet was the only large-scale genre Richard Flury returned to repeatedly throughout his entire composing career.
Compositional Technique
Flury's string quartets are notable for their idiomatic string-writing, reflecting his deep practical understanding of string instruments.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Unlike some other 20th-century composers, Flury's string quartets show a steady consolidation of style rather than major shifts or developments.
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