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Richard Flury

Richard Flury was a Swiss composer and conductor of the 20th century. His extensive worklist includes over 200 secular works in all genres. Flury was born in 1896 in Biberist, Switzerland. His father was a clockmaker and innkeeper, and his mother ran a grocery store in their home. He was the second youngest of four children, and they were all encouraged by their parents to explore music. As a boy, Flury went to school in Biberist, and he began taking lessons on both the piano and the violin. Later he attended schools in the nearby town of Solothurn, and he studied piano with Anna von Rohr, and violin with Hans Heutschi and Heinrich Wydler. He composed some of his first works in 1911 with his violin Duet and Trio, and Konzertouverture No. 1. Flury was also the concertmaster for the Biberist Orchestra, which was conducted by Richard Spiegel. After he graduated high school in 1916, he enrolled at the University of Basel as a student of musicology, art history, and philosophy. There, his music professors were Hans Huber, Fritz Hirt, and Eduard Ehrsam. He attended the University of Bern from 1918 to 1919, where he studied harmony with Ernst Kurth and violin with Alphonse Brun. This was followed by two additional years of study at the University of Geneva, which included an instrumentation course with Joseph Lauber and violin lessons from Paul Miche. After his time in Geneva, Flury began a long appointment as the conductor of the Solothurn Orchestra, and he taught violin lessons at many of the local schools. He became very active as a guest conductor in Switzerland throughout the 1920s with the Zurich Academic Orchestra, the Harmonie Mixed Chorus in Bern, and the Kursaal Orchestra Interlaken. He continued working in this capacity through the 1940s and conducted several of his own premieres including his Violin Concerto No. 1 in 1933, the Tincino Symphony in 1936, and others. His compositional style was firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition, but he briefly experimented with modernist tonalities around this time. Flury stayed in Switzerland for the remainder of his career, but his more popular works like the Carnival Symphony and the Forest Symphony were performed in Japan and other parts of Europe during his lifetime. Flury continued composing, conducting, and teaching until his death in 1967 in Biberist.
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