Arthur Lourié
Arthur Lourié · Arts & Literature
First futurist composer of Russia, head of music of the young Soviet state, later exile in Paris and America
14 mai 1892, Propoïsk, Empire russe (auj. Slavgorod, Biélorussie) — 12 octobre 1966, Princeton (New Jersey), États-Unis
Saint-Pétersbourg, Paris, New York
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Origins and early life
Arthur Lourié was born Naum Izrailevich Lurya on 14 May 1892 in Propoisk, in the Russian Empire, into a Jewish family; in 1913 he converted to Catholicism and took the name under which he is known — this fiche says so plainly, and passes on with the caution of the sources his own claim to descend from the kabbalist Isaac Luria, for which there is little evidence.
Work and career
At the St Petersburg Conservatory he became the first futurist of Russian music, a friend of the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret, of Mayakovsky and Akhmatova, whose lover he was, composing quarter-tone pieces and graphic scores before anyone in the West. After 1917 the revolution made him, at twenty-six, head of the music division of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, the government of Russian music. He left in 1922 and never returned: in Paris he was the confidant and champion of Stravinsky and a friend of the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, whose thought shaped his later works; in 1941 he fled to the United States, where he composed his opera The Blackamoor of Peter the Great in obscurity. He died at Princeton on 12 October 1966, one of the lost masters of the Russian twentieth century.
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First futurist composer of Russia, head of music of the young Soviet state, later exile in Paris and America
Source: https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-and-exile/arthur-lourie/
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