In the early 1920s Honegger shot to fame with his " dramatic psalm " Le roi David (" King David "), which is still in the choral repertoire.

Reference is made to Arthur Honegger discography.

L ' idee, when released in 1933, featured a score by composer Arthur Honegger, including an ondes Martenot, which is believed to be the very first use of an electronic musical instrument in film history.

The Misericorde Campus, constructed between 1939 – 42, was designed by the architects Honegger and Dumas, students of the famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier and as such is deemed to be of major architectural importance.

The piece is dedicated to the memory of an old friend, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, who like Poulenc had belonged to the group of " Les Six.

The story is used as the scenario of the orchestral work Horace Victorieux by Arthur Honegger, composed in 1920 and described as a ' mimed symphony ' ( symphonie mimée d ' après Tite-Live ) though it was originally conceived as a ballet.

Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher (" Joan of Arc at the Stake ") is an oratorio by Arthur Honegger, originally commissioned by Ida Rubinstein.

Following a concert which featured their respective compositions, Honegger mentioned that he supplemented his income as a composer of film scores, including Les Misérables.

* March – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage ( settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel ).

Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert collaborated on an opera, L ' Aiglon, which premiered in 1937.

Honegger on the 1996 Swiss 20 franc note.

* Site Arthur Honegger – The official site on the composer ; bilingual ( French and English )

In 1952, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and three other composers collaborated on La guirlande de Campra.

* Les mariés de la tour Eiffel was a 1921 joint project by Auric, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, on a scenario by Cocteau

Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert composed an opera in five acts, also with the title L ' Aiglon, to a libretto by Henri Cain based on Rostand's play, It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1937.

* Les Aventures du roi Pausole, opérette in three acts with music by Arthur Honegger and libretto by Albert Willemetz, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens on 12 December 1930.

Marcel Pagnol based three of his films on Giono ’ s work of this period: Regain, with Fernandel and music by Honegger, Angèle, and La Femme du boulanger, with Raimu.

Major French composers that worked on the Poetic Realism cinemas were Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Josef Kosma, and Maurice Jaubert.

Scott was active on the concert platform as a narrator / speaker under the batons of Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir David Willcocks and Sir John Pritchard performing scores by Grieg, Honegger, Purcell, Elgar, Prokofiev and her late husband, the British composer, John Wooldridge.

During his first Pittsburgh season, Steinberg conducted works by Bartók, Berg, Bloch, Britten, Copland, Harris, Honegger, Milhaud, Schuman, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Villa-Lobos at the Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival ( all of these performances appeared on record, and the Bloch, Schuman, and Vaughan Williams were licensed by Capitol ).

In those days the resident organist bore the burden of conducting, and though in 1928 several composers were on hand to conduct their own works — notably Elgar and the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály — Sumsion was responsible for works such as Verdi ’ s Requiem and Honegger ’ s King David, the latter being a Three Choirs debut.

* 1892 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( d. 1955 )

* 1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician ( b. 1917 )

** Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( d. 1955 )

* November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( b. 1892 )

Arthur Honegger ( pronounced ; 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.

Fritz Honegger ( July 25, 1917 – March 4, 1999 ) was a Swiss politician.

* Fritz Honegger, former President of the Swiss Confederation

The 20th century saw a rise in the prominence of Swiss composers, amongst them Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch, Frank Martin, Rolf Liebermann, and perhaps most famously Arthur Honegger, whose portrait of a steam train, Pacific 231, has entered the core repertoire.

The OSR premiered many works of the Swiss composers Arthur Honegger and Frank Martin.

In addition, several important composers who were not directly influenced by Rostropovich wrote cello concertos: György Ligeti, Alexander Glazunov, Paul Hindemith, Toru Takemitsu, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Samuel Barber, Joaquín Rodrigo, Elliot Carter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, William Walton, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Hans Werner Henze, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Einojuhani Rautavaara for instance.

Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill.

He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg.

Postwar oratorios include Arthur Honegger Jeanne d ' Arc au Bûcher, Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion, René Clemencic Kabbala, and Osvaldo Golijov La Pasión según San Marcos.

Born in Marseilles to a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre.

Luc Ferrari was born in Paris, and was trained in music at a very young age, studying the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger.

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 Zurich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d ' Indy.

Honegger also had a son, Jean-Claude ( 1926 – 2003 ), with the singer Claire Croiza.

Between World War I and World War II, Honegger was very prolific.

Honegger had always remained in touch with Switzerland, his parents ' country of origin, but with the outbreak of the war and the invasion of the Nazis, he found himself unable to leave Paris.

Honegger was widely known as a train enthusiast, and once notably said: " I have always loved locomotives passionately.

* Honegger's biographer was Marcel Landowski, the French composer and arts administrator, who was greatly influenced by Honegger.

* Arthur Honegger by Harry Halbreich, translated into English by Roger Nichols.

Music by Erik Satie, Honegger, Auric and Durey was played.