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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.
[10] [3] 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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
[2] [3] Written in 1945-46 on a commission from the Foundation Pro Helvetia, [4] Honegger's Third was first performed in Zürich on 17 August 1946 with Charles Munch conducting the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Munch made a live recording of the work in Prague with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1956, which has been released by the Multisonic label.
[3] He had a broad interest in culture, and while a convert to Catholicism, he was open to, and expressed deep knowledge of eastern spiritual history alongside Christian mystics. [3] He died on 27 June 2016 at the age of 85. [4] Of his three children, the eldest Frédéric is a painter. [3]