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Childhood and education. Arthur Honegger was born on the 10th of March, 1892, in Le Havre; he maintained his Swiss nationality all his life, as his parents were Helvetian and protestants; his father settled in Le Havre where he traded in coffee. Young Arthur had nothing of a child prodigy about him, but music was a large part of family life.
Honegger’s contemporaries commented on his ardent desire to speak to and move his listeners through his music—even, in his last works, to admonish them about the snares of modern life (“Arthur Honegger’s music is a warning, a wake-up call,” according to Max Favre in Favre 1952, p. 3; cited under Symphonies). Because Honegger sought communion by incorporating a modernist harmonic ...
Antigone (Honegger) Antigone. (Honegger) Antigone is an opera ( tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo ...
Arthur Honegger. Arthur Honegger in 1928. Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 - 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in Le Havre, France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of the group of composers called Les Six. His most popular piece of music is an orchestral work called Pacific 231, which imitates the ...
Aug 26, 2010 · Aug. 26, 2010. ARTHUR HONEGGER’S “Chant de Libération” was not a piece I intended to consult during a research trip to Paris in June 2009. Like others who knew of it, I thought the score ...
Nov 4, 2011 · Honegger collaborated with French poet Paul Claudel on the creation of Jeanne d'Arc and the libretto and structure of the work are absolutely brilliant. Claudel wanted to look at Joan's life in a ...
Oscar-Arthur Honegger néven született Észak- Franciaországban. Zenei tanulmányait szülővárosában kezdte, de 1909-től már a zürichi konzervatóriumban tanult. Jó tanárai voltak, zeneelméletre Lothar Kempter, hegedűre Willem de Boer oktatta. 1911-től 1914-ig a párizsi Conservatoire hallgatója volt, ahol Capet, d’Indy, Widor ...
