COMPOSER

Arthur Honegger

1892 - 1955

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Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛʁ]; 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. Honegger was a member of Les Six. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Honegger has received more than 439,201 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Arthur Honegger is the 113th most popular composer (up from 117th in 2019), the 509th most popular biography from France (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 19th 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 113 out of 1,451Before him are Manuel de Falla, Carlo Gesualdo, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giulio Caccini, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Mily Balakirev. After him are Gregorio Allegri, Francisco Tárrega, György Ligeti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Arthur Honegger ranks 21Before him are Oliver Hardy, Sepp Dietrich, Engelbert Dollfuss, Edward Victor Appleton, Ferdinand Schörner, and Martin Niemöller. After him are J. Paul Getty, Mátyás Rákosi, Stefan Banach, Gregor Strasser, George Paget Thomson, and Ernst Lubitsch. Among people deceased in 1955, Arthur Honegger ranks 13Before him are António Egas Moniz, José Ortega y Gasset, Fernand Léger, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. After him are Maurice Utrillo, Helmuth Weidling, Charlie Parker, James B. Sumner, Paul Claudel, and George Enescu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 509 out of 6,770Before him are Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Paul Langevin (1872), Aristide Briand (1862), William of Rubruck (1220), Carlos Gardel (1890), and Elisa Bonaparte (1777). After him are Hector Malot (1830), Carloman I (751), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), and Charles de Foucauld (1858).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 19Before him are François Couperin (1668), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Léo Delibes (1836), Francis Poulenc (1899), and Adolphe Adam (1803). After him are Daniel Auber (1782), Maurice Jarre (1924), Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Édouard Lalo (1823), and Paul Dukas (1865).