Banque CIC (Suisse) supports the Arthur Lourié Society Basel. The goal of this society is to make the composer Arthur Lourié, who has fallen into oblivion, well-known and accessible to a larger public. His manuscripts are still hardly published and thus only accessible with difficulty by the interpreters. The rediscovery of this fascinating composer promises some particularly exciting moments in the near future.

Arthur Lourié


Arthur Lourié (1892 - 1966) is considered to be one of the most creative, still to be discovered, composers of the 20th Century. Born in St. Petersburg he was part of the Russian Avant-garde before fleeing the troubles of the revolution and to emigrate to Paris where he became Stravinsky's assistant.

He is considered a pioneer of the modern trend and a progressive artist of the Twelve-tone music as well as minimal music. Arthur Lourié was affectionate to the French language and lived and worked for a long time in Paris. His exile path brought him in 1941 further to New York and lastly to the small University town of Princeton where he died in 1966.

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