1892 - 1955
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 356,490 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Arthur Honegger is the 117th most popular composer, the 492nd most popular biography from France (down from 471st 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, Arthur Honegger ranks 117 out of 1,216. Before him are Alma Mahler, Giulio Caccini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Manuel de Falla, Max Bruch, and Zoltán Kodály. After him are Josef Strauss, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Anton Rubinstein, György Ligeti, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
1879 - 1964
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 111
1551 - 1618
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 112
1791 - 1864
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 113
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 114
1838 - 1920
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 115
1882 - 1967
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 116
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 117
1827 - 1870
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 118
1583 - 1643
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 119
1557 - 1612
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 120
1829 - 1894
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 121
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 122
1778 - 1837
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 123
Among people born in 1892, Arthur Honegger ranks 23. Before him are Theodor Eicke, Amanullah Khan, Arthur Compton, J. Paul Getty, Gregor Strasser, and Ferdinand Schörner. After him are Engelbert Dollfuss, Erwin Panofsky, Edward Victor Appleton, George Paget Thomson, Mátyás Rákosi, and Erhard Milch. Among people deceased in 1955, Arthur Honegger ranks 15. Before him are Charlie Parker, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, and Helmuth Weidling. After him are Maurice Utrillo, Paul Claudel, George Enescu, Vasily Blokhin, Calouste Gulbenkian, and Oswald Avery.
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 17
1892 - 1960
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 18
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 19
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 20
1892 - 1934
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 21
1892 - 1973
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 22
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 23
1892 - 1934
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 24
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 25
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 26
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 27
1892 - 1971
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 28
1892 - 1972
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 29
1920 - 1955
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 9
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 10
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 11
1918 - 1955
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 12
1882 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 13
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 14
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 15
1883 - 1955
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 16
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 17
1881 - 1955
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 18
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 19
1869 - 1955
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 20
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 21
Among people born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 492 out of 6,011. Before him are Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Mireille Darc (1938), Emma of Normandy (985), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Lothair of France (941). After him are Marius Petipa (1818), André Le Nôtre (1613), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647), Suger (1080), and Urbain Le Verrier (1811).
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 486
1938 - 2017
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 487
985 - 1052
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 488
1825 - 1893
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 489
315 - 367
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 490
941 - 986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 491
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 492
1818 - 1910
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 493
1613 - 1700
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 494
1060 - 1131
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 495
1647 - 1690
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 496
1080 - 1151
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 497
1811 - 1877
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 498
Among composers born in France, Arthur Honegger ranks 19. Before him are Olivier Messiaen (1908), François Couperin (1668), Léo Delibes (1836), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Francis Poulenc (1899), and Adolphe Adam (1803). After him are Pérotin (1160), Paul Dukas (1865), Maurice Jarre (1924), Pierre Boulez (1925), Michel Legrand (1932), and Léonin (1135).
1908 - 1992
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 13
1668 - 1733
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 14
1836 - 1891
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 15
1645 - 1704
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 16
1899 - 1963
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 17
1803 - 1856
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 18
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 19
1160 - 1230
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 20
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 21
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 22
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 23
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 24
1135 - 1201
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 25