A Christmas Cantata (Honegger)
Cantata and last composition by Arthur Honegger
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A Christmas Cantata (French: Une cantate de Noël; German: Eine Weihnachtskantate) is a Christmas cantata composed by Arthur Honegger in 1953;[1][2] it is reportedly his last composition.[3]
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.
