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Arthur Honegger

1892 - 1955

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Oscar-Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛʁ]; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Honegger is the 105th most popular composer (up from 113th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from France (up from 509th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Composer.

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who is most famous for his orchestral work Pacific 231.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Arthur Honegger ranks 105 out of 1,451. Before him are Pietro Mascagni, Mikis Theodorakis, Arvo Pärt, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Francis Poulenc. After him are Léo Delibes, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Alma Mahler, Domenico Cimarosa, Mikhail Glinka, and Zoltán Kodály.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Arthur Honegger ranks 19. Before him are Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Alexander Alekhine, Amanullah Khan, Sepp Dietrich, and Arthur Compton. After him are Theodor Eicke, Ferdinand Schörner, Engelbert Dollfuss, Oliver Hardy, George Paget Thomson, and Jack L. Warner. Among people deceased in 1955, Arthur Honegger ranks 7. Before him are Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, and José Ortega y Gasset. After him are Sadako Sasaki, James B. Sumner, Alberto Ascari, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Helmuth Weidling.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 433 out of 6,770. Before him are Girard Desargues (1591), André Derain (1880), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Antoine of Navarre (1518), Pierre Gassendi (1592), and Pierre Bayle (1647). After him are Isabella of France (1295), Giambologna (1529), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Aristide Briand (1862), Léo Delibes (1836), and Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 18. Before him are Jules Massenet (1842), Josquin des Prez (1450), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Pierre Boulez (1925), and Francis Poulenc (1899). After him are Léo Delibes (1836), Adolphe Adam (1803), Edgard Varèse (1883), Maurice Jarre (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), and Édouard Lalo (1823).

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