Biography of arthur honegger a christmas

Arthur Honegger (10 March &#;–27 November ) was a Swisscomposer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

Biography of arthur honegger a christmas

He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific , which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steamlocomotive.

Biography

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zürich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy.

He continued to study through the s, before writing the balletLe dit des jeux du monde in , generally considered to be his first characteristic work. In he married Andrée Vaurabourg, a pianist and fellow student at the Paris Conservatoire.

They had one daughter, Pascale, born in Honegger also had a son, Jean-Claude (–), with the singer Claire C