A Christmas Cantata (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

Operas and operettas

• L'Aiglon
• Antigone
• Les aventures du roi Pausole

Orchestral works

• Symphony No. 1
• Symphony No. 2
• Symphony No. 3
• Symphony No. 4
• Symphony No. 5
• Pacific 231
• Pastorale d'été

Concertante

• Concerto da camera

Instrumental music

• Danse de la chèvre

Vocal music

• A Christmas Cantata
• Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
• Le Roi David

Film music

• Le Capitaine Fracasse
• Cavalcade d'amour
• The Idea
• Mayerling
• Napoléon
• La Roue

Collaborations

• L'Album des Six
• La guirlande de Campra
• Les mariés de la tour Eiffel

Related articles

• Harry Halbreich
• Les Six
• Neoclassicism
• Poetic realism
• Revolt (ballet)

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