Honegger, Arthur
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Honegger, Arthur (
b Le Havre, 1892;
d Paris, 1955). Swiss composer. Member of group of Fr. composers known as
Les Six from 1920. His
Le Roi David won him wider fame in 1921, but this was eclipsed in 1924 by f.p. of his representation of a locomotive in
Pacific 231. From these works he moved nearer to a neo-romantic style with overtones of baroque influence from his admiration for Bach. His mus. remained tonal and often has strong emotional impact, as in his dramatic oratorio, based on a Claudel ‘mystery play’,
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. His syms. were championed by the cond. Charles
Munch. He visited the USA several times and despite ill-health taught in his last years at the École Normale in Paris. Prin. works:THEATRE:
Le Roi David, dramatic psalm (1921);
Judith, biblical opera (1925);
Antigone (1927);
Amphion, ballet-melodrama, speaker, bar., 4 female vv., ch., orch. (1929);
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, stage oratorio (1934–5);
L'Aiglon, 5-act opera with
Ibert (1935);
Charles le téméraire (1943–4).BALLETS:
Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (with
Les Six) (1921);
L'appel de la montagne (1945).ORCH.:
Pastorale d'été (1920);
Chant de Joie (1923);
Pacific 231 (1923); concertino, pf., orch. (1924);
Rugby (1928); vc. conc. (1929); syms., No.1 (1929–30), No.2, str., tpt. (1941), No.3
(Liturgique) (1945–6), No.4 (
Deliciae basiliensis) (1946), No.5 (
Di tre re) (1951);
Mouvement symphonique No.3 (1932–3);
Nocturne (1936);
La Construction d'une cité (with Milhaud) (1937); concerto da camera, fl., ca., str. (1948);
Monopartita (1951).VOICE AND ORCH.:
Chanson de Ronsard, with fl. and str. (1924); 3
Chansons populaires (1926).CHORAL:
Cantique des Cantiques (1926);
Les Cris du Monde (1930–1);
La Danse des Morts (Claudel), solo vv., ch., orch. (1938);
Chant de libération (1944);
Une Cantate de Noël (1941/1953).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qts., No.1 (1916–17), No.2 (1936), No.3 (1936–7); sonatas for pf. and vn., No.1 (1916–18), No.2 (1919); va. sonata (1920); vc. sonata (1920); vn. sonatina (1932); vn. sonata (1940).
Also incid. mus. for plays, mus. for films (incl.
Les Misérables (1934),
Mayerling (1935), and
Pygmalion (1938)), radio mus., many songs, and pf. pieces.
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Arthur Honegger.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Arthur Honegger. By Harry Haibreich. Translated by...a great deal to be done concerning Arthur Honegger. A prolific member of the group...translation of Harry Halbreich's Arthur Honegger: Un musicien dons la cite des hommes...
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ARTHUR HONEGGER E LA GRECIA ANTICA DOPO ANTIGONE. LE MUSICHE DI SCENA INEDITE DEGLI ANNI QUARANTA E CINQUANTA1
Magazine article from: Studi Musicali; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1943 - 16 anni dopo Antigone - Arthur Honegger scrive su Comoedia: Deux ouvrages...particolarmente significativo il fatto che Honegger, attraverso l'ondes Martenot...Andr Bonnard), che lo stesso Honegger aveva composto nel 1941. Antigone...
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Arthur Honegger
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher; 2/1/2000; ; 331 words
; Arthur Honegger, by Harry Halbreich. Amadeus Press, (133 S. W 2nd Ave...major twentieth-century composer. With the cooperation of Honegger's daughter, Pascale Honegger, Halbreich has fully documented the composer's life since...
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Duos by Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinu, Maurice Ravel, Matthias Pintscher, J.S. Bach
Magazine article from: Strings; 5/1/2007; ; 581 words
; Duos by Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinu, Maurice Ravel, Matthias Pintscher, J.S. Bach...20th- and 21st-century-works begins and ends with impressionism: Honegger's Sonatine VI (1932)-alternately aggressive and gentle, fast...
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Honegger: Pacific 231; Symphony No. 2, etc. David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich. Decca 455 352-2.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 2/1/2000; ; 592 words
; Honegger: Pacific 231; Symphony No. 2, etc...2. This disc brings together some of Arthur Honegger's best-known orchestral works, and...interpretively, they have ever enjoyed. Honegger was one of those modernists of the first...
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Honegger: Symphony No. 3; Pacific 231; Pastorale de'ete; Rugby.(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...top-notch for this recital of Honegger orchestral music, every bit the...topflight "Pacific 231," possibly Honegger's most-famous work, but haven...things on a full-price disc. Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), as I've said...
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Honegger: Le Roi David
Magazine article from: Opera News; 4/1/2000; ; 597 words
; HONEGGER: Le Roi David Borst Todorovitch, Guedj...55364 Among the members of "Les Six," Arthur Honegger is not so celebrated today as Poulenc...his triumphs over Goliath and Saul. Honegger, in adapting his theater score for the...
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Honegger: Le Roi David. (Jean-Claude Casadesus, Orchestre National de Lille)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/20/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...when critics hold forth on Les Six, as if Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, and the...link is there between the Swiss Protestant Honegger and the Provengal Jew Milhaud?) Honegger's roots were much like those of the middle...
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radio in review
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...One of the teachers Xenakis tried in Paris was Arthur Honegger. Honegger didn't like what Xenakis was doing, and Xenakis didn't like Honegger as a person: "Milhaud was much kinder." By the...
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Charles Munch, un chef d'orchestre dans le siecle.
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Alfred Cortot, Dag Hammarskjold, Arthur Honegger (2), Jacques Ibert, Andre...not named], Tibor Harsanyi, Arthur Honegger (5); Jacques Ibert, D. E...and Jean-Jacques Schweitzer, Arthur Honegger to an unnamed Portuguese friend...
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Honegger, Arthur
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
HONEGGER, Arthur Composer. Nationality: Swiss. Born...books — Tappolet, W., Arthur Honegger , Zurich, 1933, rev. ed., 1954. Claudel, Paul and others, Arthur Honegger , Paris, 1943. Bruyr, J., Honegger...
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Arthur Honegger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Arthur Honegger Although Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) was a Swiss composer, he was identified with...result, some of his compositions were immediately popular. Arthur Honegger was born in Le Havre, France, where his Swiss father was...
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Iannis Xenakis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the Ecole Normale de Musique, where the distinguished Arthur Honegger was on the faculty. Unfortunately, this association was doomed. At one class Honegger listened to part of a composition Xenakis had written...
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Boulez, Pierre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...studying comp. with Messiaen 1944–5. Studied counterpoint with Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger (wife of Arthur Honegger ) and 12-note technique with René Leibowitz. In 1946 became mus. dir. and cond. of Barrault...
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Napoleon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Schildnecht, Jacouty, Meinhardt, and Laourie; music: Arthur Honegger; consultants: Jean Arroy, Jean Mitry, and Sacher...in New York Times , 25 September 1967. Lenning, Arthur, "The French Film — Abel Gance," in The...
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