Lourié, Arthur Vincent

Lourié (Lur'ye), Arthur Vincent (5–14–1892, P.; 10-[12]13–1966, Princeton, NJ). Lourié studied at the P. Cons. and was a friend of the Russian symbolist poets Aleksandr Blok and Osip Mandel'shtam. He is said to have given lectures on Mandel'shtam's writings. From 1918 he worked under Lunacharsky as musical commissar in charge of the music division (MUZO) of the Department of Education (NARKOMPROS), when modernist artists enjoyed great influence in Russia. Partly due to his modernist interests…