Arthur Lourié

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Arthur-Vincent Lourié, born Artur Sergeyevich Luriye (Russian: Артур Сергеевич Лурье, 14 May 1892 in Saint Petersburg - 12 October 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a significant Russian composer. Lourié played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile. His music reflects his close connections with contemporary writers and artists, and also his close relationship with Igor Stravinsky. Russian career Born into a prosperous Jewish family, he converted to Catholicism while still in Russia. An admirer of Van Gogh, from whom he derived the name 'Vincent', Lourié was partly self-taught, but also studied piano with Barinova and composition with Alexander Glazunov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, graduating in 1913. He became friendly with the Futurist poets and particularly Anna Akhmatova, whose poetry he was among the first to set. He was also acquainted with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Fyodor Sologub and Alexander Blok; and was deeply influenced by contemporary art. His early piano pieces, from 1908 onward, take on from the late works of Alexander Scriabin but evolve new kinds of discourse, arriving in 1914 at an early form of dodecaphony (the Synthèses) and in 1915 at the Formes en l'air, dedicated to Picasso, a rather Cubist conception using an innovative form of notation in which different systems are placed spatially on the page in independent blocks, with blanks instead of

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Louriè: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

futurpiano

Lourié: Piano Works

Lourié: Solo Piano Works

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Lourié: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2

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Mélancholie

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Soviet Avant-Garde

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Russian Avant-Garde Piano Music Of The Early 20th Century

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Night Stories

Lourie: A Little Chamber Music

Lin, Jenny: Russian Piano Preludes 1905-1922

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Lourié: 5 Préludes Fragiles, Op. 1

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