A Christmas Cantata (Honegger)
Cantata and last composition by Arthur Honegger
A Christmas Cantata (French: Une cantate de Noël; German: Eine Weihnachtskantate) is a Christmas cantata composed by Arthur Honegger in 1953; it is reportedly his last composition.
It requires a mixed choir, a baritone soloist, an organ, an orchestra and a children's choir, and it describes the Christmas story. The cantata is divided into three parts.
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Arthur Honegger
- List of compositions
- Discography
- L'Aiglon
- Antigone
- Les aventures du roi Pausole
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 2
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphony No. 4
- Symphony No. 5
- Pacific 231
- Pastorale d'été
- Concerto da camera
- A Christmas Cantata
- Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
- Le Roi David
- Le Capitaine Fracasse
- Cavalcade d'amour
- The Idea
- Mayerling
- Napoléon
- La Roue
- Harry Halbreich
- Les Six
- Neoclassicism
- Poetic realism
- Revolt (ballet)
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