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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.
1929 : H 73 Berceuses pour la Bobcisco for violin, flute (or violin), trumpet (or viola), cello and piano 1932 : H 79 Prelude pour la Sous-basse (Contrabass) et Piano 1934 : H 89 Petite Suite for 2 instruments and piano 1940 : H 139 Partita for 2 pianos 1941 : H 147 L'Ombre de la Ravine for string quartet, flute and harp (The Shadow of the Ravine)
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 ...
In December 1954, he was made a "Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur". [61] Early 1955 saw the recording of Arthur Honegger vous parle et présente son œuvre (Honegger speaks to you and presents his work; see on YouTube, in French). Arthur Honegger died in his studio, 71 boulevard de Clichy, on 27 November 1955.
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 ...
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 piece is the first in Honegger's series of three symphonic movements. The other two are Rugby and Mouvement Symphonique No. 3. Honegger lamented that his "poor Symphonic Movement No. 3 paid dearly for its barren title". [2] Critics generally ignored it, while Pacific 231 and Rugby, with more evocative titles, have been written about in depth.
L'Aiglon is an opera (drame musical) in five acts composed by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert.Honegger composed acts 2, 3, and 4, with Ibert composing acts 1 and 5. A 2016 reviewer described it as "a singular piece of work" with its "blend of operetta, divertissement, conversation piece, historical pageant and, in the disturbingly powerful fourth act set on the Napoleonic battlefield at ...