COMPOSER

Arthur Honegger

1892 - 1955

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Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛːʁ]; 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. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably Antigone, composed between 1924 and 1927 to the French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Honegger has received more than 399,862 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arthur Honeggers by language

Over the past year Arthur Honegger has had the most page views in the with 49,212 views, followed by French (24,478), and German (21,008). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (142.89%), Ido (133.98%), and Latvian (86.62%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Arthur Honegger ranks 113 out of 1,451. Before 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 21. Before 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 13. Before 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 6,770. Before 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).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 19. Before 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).

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