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Arthur Honegger

Author: Harry Halbreich; Reinhard G Pauly
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) is a major composer of the twentieth century. He first came to the attention of the musical public, along with Poulenc and Milhaud, as a member of Les Six and attained a certain notoriety with his composition Pacific 2.3.1., a musical representation of a steam locomotive. Although he earned popular acclaim with his oratorio King David (Le Roi David) early in his career, he was never
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Genre/Form: Bibliography
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Halbreich, Harry.
Arthur Honegger.
Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, 1999
(OCoLC)636746143
Named Person: Arthur Honegger; Arthur Honegger
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harry Halbreich; Reinhard G Pauly
ISBN: 1574670417 9781574670417
OCLC Number: 38536078
Notes: Translation of: Arthur Honegger, un musicien dans la cité des hommes.
Description: 677 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. 1. Chronicle of a Life. Ch. 1. Turly (1892-1910). Ch. 2. The Paris Conservatory and Honegger's Earliest Works (1911-1918). Ch. 3. Six or Swiss? From Le Dit des jeux du monde to Le Roi David (1919-1922). Ch. 4. "King Arthur": Dramas and Triumphs (1923-1931). Ch. 5. Reversal of Fortune: In the Trough of the Wave (1932-1933). Ch. 6. Toward the Summit: Claudel and the Cinema (1934-1940). Ch. 7. The War and After: Climax of a Career (1941-1947). Ch. 8. Catastrophe and Reprieve: The Final Harvest (1948-1952). Ch. 9. Epilogue: Life's Setting Sun (1953-1955) --
Pt. 2. Inventory of Works. Ch. 10. Chamber Music. Ch. 11. Orchestral Music. Ch. 12. Theater and Musical Frescoes. Ch. 13. Incidental Music. Ch. 14. Light Music
Other Titles: Arthur Honegger, un musicien dans la cité des hommes.
Responsibility: by Harry Halbreich ; translated by Roger Nichols ; Reinhard G. Pauly, general editor.

Abstract:

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) is a major composer of the twentieth century. He first came to the attention of the musical public, along with Poulenc and Milhaud, as a member of Les Six and attained a certain notoriety with his composition Pacific 2.3.1., a musical representation of a steam locomotive. Although he earned popular acclaim with his oratorio King David (Le Roi David) early in his career, he was never concerned with musical fashion, and in his later years his musical language - serious, well crafted, consistently tonal - was considered outmoded.

This important study considers both Honegger's life and his works. With the cooperation of Honegger's daughter, Pascale Honegger, Harry Halbreich has fully documented the composer's life since childhood; all his works are treated, with many of the more significant ones analyzed in detail. A concluding section attempts to discover, by examining the common threads in his life and music, the true nature of this giant, whose stature is finally being recognized more than forty years after his death.

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