Swiss composer who was born in France and lived much of his life in Paris.His piece for orchestra Pacific 231, which imitates the sound of a locomotive (train), received the most attention.Oscar - Arthur Honeger (first name never used) was born in Le Havre, France. In Paris, he intensively studied harmony and cello. He also studied in Zurich for a short time. He then studied with such composers as Charlie Vidor and Vincent Indi. He studied until 1910, after which he wrote the ballet "Le dit jeux du fonde", which is regarded as his first thoughtful work. in 1926 he married Adre Vauraborgë, a pianist and good friend, a student from the Paris Conservatoire. They had a daughter named Paskalė, born in 1932. Honeger also had a son named Djin-Caud (1926-2003). He was born with the singer Klera Kroiza.Between the First and Second World Wars, Honegger's work reached its peak. He composed music with Abeli Grance in 1927 for the film Napoleon. He composed a wonderful ballet and three operas, among other works. One of the operas, Jeanee d`Arc au Buder (1935), was one of his last works. His one opera was written independently, but he composed the other two with Jacques Ebert Lagoon (1937).During that year he also wrote Danse de la Chèvre (1921), a full-repertoire play and dedicated it to Rene Le Roy," composed a solo composition for flute that sounded youthful but similar to the style of all of Honegger's work.Honegger always remembered Switzerland, his real homeland, but after being deported during the war after the Nazi occupation, he moved to Paris. He joined the French resistance to the Nazis and thus was able to create without major interference. In any case, the composer was very shocked by the events of the war. Artūras Honegeris died at home from a heart attack on October 27, 1955. and was buried in the Cimetiere Saint-Vincent in the Montenegrin quarter of Paris.
