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    * 10. 03. 1892, † 27. 11. 1955.

    Arthur Honegger was born 10 March, 1892 in Le Havre (France) and died on 27 November, 1955 in Paris. He was born the son of the tradesman Arthur Honegger (1851-1922) and his wife Julie Ulrich (1859-1922), both from the canton of Zurich. Honegger grew up in France after his parents emigrated to a Swiss colony in Le Havre where his father became a successful importer of coffee. The family returned, however, to their native Switzerland in 1913. Honegger was an official citizen of Switzerland and of the canton of Zurich where he became resident in 1919. He received violin lessons from professor Santreuil and was instructed in harmony by the organist Robert-Charles Martin early on. His first ambitious works remain chiefly unfinished, examples include the operas 'Philippa' and 'Sigismond', sonatas and the 'Oratorio du Calvaire'.

    Honegger not only spent each summer in Zurich but also lived there between the months of September 1909 and June 1911. He atten

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    Arthur Honegger

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    French-Swiss composer

    • 1892 born in Le Havre, France to Swiss parents.
    • 1911-1918 studied at the Paris Conservatory, after previous study at the Zurich conservatory. At the conservatory, his teachers included Capet (violin), Gédalge (counterpoint and fugue), Widor (composition and orchestration), d'Indy (conducting), Emmanuel (history) and others. Fellow students included Tailleferre, Auric, Ibert (with whom he collaborated on two large-scale works in the 1930s) and Milhaud, who became a close friend.
    • 1913 his family returned to Zurich, but Honegger settled in Montmartre, residing there until his death.
    • 1917 composed "Fugue et Choral pour orgue," his only significant organ work.
    • 1920 the group of composers "Les Six," was founded,a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse. The group included Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre. According to Oxford Music online, "The series of
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      Arthur Honegger

      Swiss composer (1892–1955)

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      Arthur Honegger (French:[aʁtyʁɔnɛɡɛʁ]; 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 popular work".[2]

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      Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) to Swiss parents in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony with Robert-Charles Martin (to whom he dedicated his first published work[3]) and violin in Le Havre. He then moved to Switzerland, where he spent two years (September 1909 – June 1911) at the Zurich Conservatory being taught bygd Lothar Kempter and Friedrich Hegar. In 1911, he enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire from 1911 to 1918 (except for a brief period du