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Honegger’s *Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher* presents a powerful oratorio exploring the events surrounding Joan of Arc's trial and execution. Composed in Switzerland during the 20th century, this work combines music with dramatic spoken segments to vividly portray the hagiographic story. It is primarily inte...

Le Roi David (King David) is a dramatic oratorio by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, composed in 1921. The work tells the biblical story of King David from his anointment as king through his reign, struggles, and death, using texts compiled by René Morax from the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicle...

Written in 1940, Arthur Honegger's unaccompanied violin sonata stands out as a substantial contribution to the solo repertoire during the turbulence of World War II.

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 1 in C-sharp minor, H. 17 is a chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1918. The sonata belongs to Honegger's early period and combines late-Romantic harmonic weight with the changing tonal language of early twentieth-century French music. Its substantial an...

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 2 in B major, H. 24 is a chamber work for violin and piano completed in 1919. Written during the composer's early career, it uses energetic rhythms and an increasingly individual harmonic language while retaining the recognizable framework of the violin-sonata tra...

The Cello Concerto by Arthur Honegger was composed in 1929. Honegger, born in Le Havre, France to Swiss parents, was a member of the Paris-based composer group known as Les Six, though his musical style often differed from the lighter aesthetic associated with other members. The concerto reflects th...

The Violin Sonata No. 2, H. 64, is a chamber music composition for violin and piano written by Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger in 1919. Honegger, a member of the early 20th-century group of composers known as Les Six, developed a modernist aesthetic characterized by strong rhythms and contrapu...

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 1 in C-sharp minor, H. 17, is a chamber work for violin and piano completed in 1918. It is an early work by the Swiss-born French composer, written before the more varied neoclassical, symphonic, and dramatic styles of his later career. The sonata's intense chroma...

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 1, H. 17 is a chamber music work composed in 1918 for violin and piano. Written by the Swiss composer before his formal association with the Parisian group "Les Six," the piece reflects a transition from late Romantic influences to more modernist textures. The son...

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 2, H. 24 is a chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1919 and published in 1920. Written during the Swiss-born composer's early career, it uses compact forms, strong rhythmic contrasts, and a harmonic language moving beyond late Romanticism. The sonata is i...

La Danse des morts is an oratorio by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, written in 1938 to a French text by Paul Claudel and first performed in Basel in 1940. It combines solo voices, a narrator, chorus, and orchestra in a meditation on death, judgment, and human violence. The work draws on biblical pa...

Honegger Violin Sonata No. 0 in D minor, catalogued as H. 3, is an early work for violin and piano by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger. He wrote it in 1912 but suppressed its official publication during his lifetime, which accounts for the retrospective designation "No. 0." The piece is of interest to...

Nicolas de Flue is a secular oratorio by Arthur Honegger, written in 1940 for the Swiss National Exhibition. The work concerns Nicholas of Flüe, the fifteenth-century Swiss hermit, mystic, and national patron, and uses his life and reputation as a framework for a broader Swiss historical and civic s...

Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata No. 0, catalogued as H. 3, is an early chamber work for violin and piano. It was composed in 1912, before Honegger became widely known for larger orchestral and dramatic works. The sonata is associated with the composer's formative period and reflects his early work i...