Richard Flury defended his commitment to tonality and musical Romanticism, stating he preferred to honor the worldview of the previous century rather than follow fashionable trends dominated by reason and calculation.
Performer Biography
Urs Joseph Flury, the son of Richard Flury, is a violinist and conductor who has performed and recorded many of his father's works and established the Richard Flury Foundation and Society to promote his father's oeuvre.
Compositional Technique
Richard Flury's compositions often feature highly contrapuntal development of themes, imaginative harmonies, and rhythmic development, with his orchestral works displaying transparent and inventive scoring, often with Impressionistic traits.
Composer Biography
Despite being a music teacher in a provincial town, Richard Flury's significance was acknowledged by many prominent musicians of his time, including Wilhelm Backhaus, Pau Casals, Franz Lehár, Richard Strauss, and Felix Weingartner.
Composer Biography
Richard Flury, born in Biberist, Switzerland, received his early musical education at home and studied musicology, art history, and philosophy at universities, alongside violin and composition at conservatories.
Composer Biography
Richard Flury was a prolific Swiss composer, with a work catalogue that includes operas, symphonies, ballets, instrumental concertos, and 181 songs with piano accompaniment.
Composer's Artistic Vision
As a composer, Richard Flury was committed to late Romanticism, viewing music as a language of emotions and rejecting anything constructivist.
