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Danse de la chèvre (French for Dance of the Goat) is a piece for solo flute by Arthur Honegger, written in 1921 as incidental music for dancer Lysana of Sacha Derek's play La mauvaise pensée. At the start of the piece, there is a slow dreamlike introduction consisting of tritone phrases.
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1911 : H 110a Orgue dans l'église for organ, music used in Marthe Richard au service de la France, H 110 1937 : H 126a Hymne du bâtiment, music from Les bâtisseurs, H 126 1939 : H 137 Possèdes-tu, pauvre pécheur for unison chorus, harmonium or piano 1945 : H 183b Chant de la délivrance for voices and piano, music form Un Ami viendra ce soir
Honegger's symphony, which contains musical quotations from two Basel folk songs, expresses the composer's happiness during a pleasant stay in the Swiss countryside after the end of World War II. [2] Despite the pastoral and often joyous mood throughout much of the symphony, the closing minutes include some tragic or more serious elements.
From 1952 to 1968, René Le Roy was a solo flute at the New York City Opera Orchestra, and until 1971 he was a chamber music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were Christine Alicot, Juho Alvas, Thomas Brown, Susan Morris DeJong, Geoffrey Gilbert and Bassam Saba.
The Symphony No. 5 by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a three-movement work for orchestra written in the autumn of 1950. Its subtitle Di tre re (of the three Ds) is a reference to the D (re) played by the solo timpani and basses at the end of each movement.
Théâtre du Jorat, Mézières, where the dramatic psalm was first performed. Original 1921 version: Honegger originally wrote his Le Roi David music for the forces that were available at Morax's Mézières village theatre group, creating a score for the resources available; a small ensemble of 16 musicians comprising: 2 flutes [1 doubling piccolo], 1 oboe [doubling cor anglais], 2 clarinets ...
Symphonie Liturgique is the third symphony by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger. Composed in the aftermath of World War II, it is one of Honegger's best-known works. [1] It is in three movements, each of which (following the symphony's subtitle) is named after a liturgical text. The first movement is named after the Dies irae from the Requiem ...