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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.
1937 : H 110 Marthe Richard au service de la France 1911 : H 110a Orgue dans l'église for organ, music used in Marthe Richard au service de la France, H 110 1937 : H 111 Prelude á la Mort de Jaurès from the show Liberté, in collaboration with Arthur Hoérée, lost 1937 : H 112 Liberté, in collaboration with Arthur Hoérée, lost
Arthur Honegger in 1928. Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛʁ]; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. [1] Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally ...
List of compositions by Arthur Honegger; A. L'Album des Six; C. A Christmas Cantata (Honegger) Concerto da camera (Honegger) D. Danse de la chèvre; G. La Guirlande ...
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 ...
Les aventures du roi Pausole (The adventures of King Pausole) is an opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on the 1901 novel by Pierre Louÿs. [1] It was Honegger's third operatic work, but his first in lighter vein, composed between May and November 1930, and dedicated to Fernand ...
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) is a mystère lyrique, or sung mystery play (a dramatic sort of oratorio), by Paul Claudel with music by Arthur Honegger. Commissioned by Ida Rubinstein , it was written in 1935, premiered in 1938 and published in 1947 after rounds of minor revisions that extended into 1944.
A private preview of The Idea took place in Paris on 23 January 1932; the Belgian artist Henry van de Velde and the German writers Stefan Zweig and Klaus Mann were amongst the attendees. [14] Mann lauded it as "of the highest ethical and artistic pathos". [e] [20] The official première—with Honegger's soundtrack—occurred in London in late ...