Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7] @ClassicalNerd
Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]  @ClassicalNerd
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“I am a Composer” by Arthur Honegger, translated by Wilson Clough and Allan Willman (Faber and Faber, 1966)
“Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie,” edited by Robert Shapiro (Peter Owen Publishers, 2011)
“Arthur Honegger” by Paul Landormy and Fred Rothwell (The Musical Times, Vol. 70, No. 1039): jstor.org/stable/914732
“A Study of Arthur Honegger” by A. G. Browne (Music & Letters, Vol. 10, No. 4): jstor.org/stable/726129
“Darius Milhaud in the United States, 1940–71: Transatlantic Constructions of Musical Identity” by Erin K. Maher (PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2011)
“An Analysis of Honegger’s Cello Concerto (1929): A Return to Simplicity?” by Denika Lam Kleinmann (DMA dissertation, University of North Texas, 2014): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500189/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf

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Music:

- Arthur Honegger: Sept PiĂšces BrĂšves (1920), performed by John Robson [free recordings courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Arthur Honegger: Concerto da Camera for Flute, English Horn and Strings (1948), performed by Fernand DufrÚne, Paul Taillefer, and Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française conducted by Georges Tzipine [original upload: 0iphzdVU9kE]
- Arthur Honegger: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920), performed by Valérie Aimard and Cédric Tiberghien [original upload: aqSFBwBC0S0]

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