Honegger, Marc

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Honegger, Marc

Honegger, Marc, French musicologist and lexicographer; b. Paris, June 17, 1926. He was educated in Paris, where he studied with Chailley and Masson (music history and theory) at the Sorbonne (1947–50), Santiago Riera (piano), Ion Constantinesco and Bigot (conducting), and Migot (composition) at the École Supérieure de Musique, and at the Univ. (docteur-ès-lettres, 1970, with 2 diss., Les chansons spirituelle de Didier Lupi Second et les débuts de la musique protestante en France au XVIe siècle, publ. in Lille, 1971, and Les messes de Josquin des Près dans la tablature de Diego Pisador (Salamanque 1552): Contribution a l’étude des alterations au XVIe siècle). After working at the Inst. of Musicology at the Univ. of Paris (1954–58), he taught at the Univ. of Strasbourg (1958–91). He was secretary general (1973–77) and president (1977–80) of the Société française de musicologie, and vice-president of the International Musicological Soc. (1982–92).

Writings

La musique française de 1830 à 1914 (1962); Dictionnaire de la musique (2 vols., Strasbourg, 1970; 4th ed., rev., 1993); Science de la musique (4 vols., Paris, 1976); Georges Migot humaniste (Strasbourg, 1977); Catalogue des oeuvres musicale de Georges Migot (Strasbourg, 1977); Dictionnaire des oeuvres de la musique vocale (3 vols., Paris, 1991-92); Dictionnaire usuel de la musique (Paris, 1995); Connaissance de la musique (Paris, 1996); with P. Prévost, Dictionnaire de la musique vocale: Lyrique, Religieuse et profane (Paris, 1998).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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