Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a composer of operas, chamber music, and orchestral music. An almost exact contemporary of Prokofiev (1891-1953), he rivaled Poulenc as the most successful member of Les Six and was without doubt among the greatest French composers of his day. He was influenced in his early work by the impressionists and Stravinsky's modernism, but stylistically, he was quite protean, eschewing the Impressionism of Debussy while absorbing certain features of neo-Classicism and taking on a sometimes brash and usually rugged expressive manner, always within a tonal context. H...