Marc Honegger

Marc Honegger

Marc Honneger directing the Mise au tombeau by Georges Migot in the Strasbourg cathedral (1969).
Born 17 May 1926
Paris
Died 27 August 2003(2003-08-27) (aged 77)
Saint-Martin-de-Vers (Lot)
Occupation Musicologist
Choirmaster

Marc Honegger (17 May 1926 – 8 September 2003) was a French musicologist and choirmaster.

Biography

Training

Honegger studied at the Sorbonne, where he was a pupil of Paul-Marie Masson. He received a very complete musical training: He studied piano with Santiago Riera (1942-1949), musical composition with Georges Migot from 1946 and conducting with Ion Constantinesco (1947-1948).

Teaching

An assistant of Jacques Chailley at the Institut de Musicologie of Paris Sorbonne (1954-1958), then teaching assistant at the Strasbourg University (from 1958), he became full professor in 1970. He also taught abroad in Canada. He directed the Institute of Musicology of the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg from 1958 to 1983. He was also president of the Société française de musicologie 1977–1980) and vice-president of the International Musicological Society 1982–1992).

Musicologist

Honegger's research focused mainly on music from the 16th century. He supported two doctoral thesis, one on the origins of Reformed Protestant music in France, Les Chansons spirituelles de Didier Lupi et les débuts de la musique protestante en France au XVIe[1] and the other on the alterations (flats or sharps) not noted in the Renaissance music, Les Messes de Josquin des Prés dans la tablature de Diego Pisador (Salamanque 1552): contribution à l'étude des altérations au XVIe.[2]

He contributed to the publication of works by composers of the 16th century such as Paschal de L'Estocart, Claudin de Sermisy, Pierre Certon, Didier Lupi Second, and Claude Goudimel. The dictionaries he has coordinated are today still reference works.

Honegger was also interested in 20th-century music, notably that of Georges Migot (1891–1976), who was his teacher, and whose work he wanted to make known. He became secretary-general of the association of Friends of the work and thought of Georges Migot. He published the Catalogue des œuvres musicales de Georges Migot in 1977. He helped publish musical scores such as 26 Monodies permodales in 1990, L'Annonciation, oratorio for two soloists, chorus with three voices of women and string orchestra (1993). He produced recordings, Le petit Evangéliaire, nine choruses a capella, Requiem a capella for mixed choir or vocal quartet, recorded with his Ensemble Les Chanteurs Traditioneles de Paris. He also organized exhibitions on Georges Migot.

Choirmaster

At the age of 21, he began a career as a choirmaster, in the Parisian protestant churches of the Foyer de l'âme (1947–1952) and the holly spirit (1952–1954). From 1952 until 1959, he directed the "chœur des Chanteurs traditionnels de Paris", with which he restored and published religious or profane music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. As a choir conductor, he recorded La Bataille de Marignan by Clément Janequin, The French masters of the Renaissance, and especially the three-voice Tournai Mass. He obtained the Grand Prix de l'Académie du disque in 1958.

In 1961, Honegger established the « Journées de Chant Choral » of Strasbourg which became one of the biggest festivals of their kind in Europe.

Writings

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Les Chansons spirituelles de Didier Lupi et les débuts de la musique protestante en France au XVIe
  2. ↑ Les Messes de Josquin des Prés dans la tablature de Diego Pisador (Salamanque 1552): contribution à l'étude des altérations au XVIe
  3. ↑ Dictionnaire de la musique : les hommes et leurs œuvres
  4. ↑ Dictionnaire de la musique : technique, formes, instruments
  5. ↑ Dictionnaire usuel de la Musique
  6. ↑ Connaissance de la Musique (de A à Z)
  7. ↑ Dictionnaire du musicien
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