Dieter Flury

Dieter Flury (born July 8, 1952 in Küsnacht , Switzerland ) is a flautist . From 1981 to 2017 he was principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic and from 2005 to 2014 its managing director .

biography

Dieter Flury was born in Switzerland and completed his flute studies with André Jaunet at the Zurich University of Music , where he graduated in 1976 with a soloist diploma.

1972 to 1976 studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich , 1982 doctorate in technical mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna .

From 1977 Dieter Flury was a member of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic . In 1981 he became principal flutist of the orchestra , and from 2005 to 2014 he was also the director of the orchestra . He retired in 2017 .

Dieter Flury has been teaching as a full professor at the Graz University of Art since 1996 .

Flury has four children and lives in Vienna. His daughter Iréna Flury (* 1984) is an actress.

Controversy over misogyny

Dieter Flury said in an interview with WDR in 1996 musical misogyny :

“We spoke earlier about something special from Vienna, about this kind of music making here. And for me that is also an indication that the way music is made here is not just a technical skill, but has a lot to do with the soul, and the soul simply cannot be separated from the cultural roots that we are here in Central Europe, and she cannot be separated by gender. So if you are of the opinion that the world should function according to quotas, then of course the fact that we are a group of white-skinned male musicians here who only perform white-skinned male composers is a racist and sexist nuisance, you have to I think so say. If you come up with a superficial leveling out, you lose very important things in it. Therefore I am convinced that it is worth accepting this racist and sexist nuisance, because something comes out that, in my opinion, would not come out to the same extent if it were changed now according to misunderstood human rights. "

Awards

• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2007)
• Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg (2003)
• Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1996)

Web links

• http://www.flury.at
• Dieter Flury Vienna Philharmonic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Vienna State Opera - Dieter Flury . Retrieved December 23, 2014.
2. ↑ derStandard.at - Vienna Philharmonic - Harald Krumpöck elected as the new managing director . Article dated June 12, 2014, accessed December 23, 2014.
3. ^ Dieter Flury - biographical notes . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
4. Jump up ↑ in the Olympus of the classical world . Article dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019.
5. ^ Website of Iréna Flury - Magazine . Accessed January 2, 2014.
6. ↑ http://www.osborne-conant.org/wdrgerm.htm “Musical Misogyny”. A German transcription of the West German State Radio Interiew of the Vienna Philharmonic (as transcribed by Regina Himmelbauer). Retrieved June 27, 2020