Richard Flury

Many people hearing the music compiled by Swiss composer and conductor Richard Flury are baffled from the music’s astonishingly past due date: Just the first 4 of Flury’s 71 years were spent in the nineteenth century yet the music — especially the later on music — sounds wholly Passionate and not past due Passionate at that, either. There is certainly something of Weber, of Schubert, and of Strauss to Flury’s way; if his music hadn’t been therefore well-crafted and experienced such broad charm towards the folks of Switzerland, he could have already been dismissed as an evolutionary throwback to a bygone musical period. Even the facts of his existence and career appear uncannily outmoded by twentieth-century requirements: this is a guy who produced a name for himself without ever heading lots of miles from the area of his delivery, who gained popularity and lot of money without ever tackling the worldwide music picture and without ever participating in a significant conservatory, and who spent his lifestyle teaching in a little town and performing regional choirs and orchestras. Flury was created in the city of Biberist in 1896 and passed away there in 1967. He examined music at many Swiss colleges — those in Geneva and Berne included in this — and returned towards the Biberist region in 1919 to instruct on the Solothurn Town College of Music. In 1931, he became a member of the faculty from the Solothurn Canton College. He was a comparatively prolific composer: three operas, seven symphonies, a half-dozen single concertos (for piano or violin, or in a single case for both at exactly the same time), seven string quartets, nearly twelve violin sonatas, a large number of piano parts, and a big body of sacred music including four public. The modernist musical styles of his personal day had been quite distasteful to Flury, which can in part take into account his choice to isolate himself from the bigger musical establishment. His was a lyric and melodious art, with dissonance used only when required most and constantly under stringent control.