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Media Reviews
"A beautiful tribute to a distinguished and much-appreciated musician.
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— The Opera Journal, Volume 32, Number 4
"The discussion of the music is both skilful and authoritative."
— Terry Barfoot, Classical Music on the Web
, July 16, 2001
"[Halbreich’s] writing (in Roger Nichols’s graceful translation) is clear, balanced, judicious. This is and will surely long remain the definitive work on a great Swiss composer."
— Lehman, American Record Guide
"Arthur Honegger is a major addition to the literature on this composer. Halbreich is to be commended for his exhaustive work on an important but overlooked figure in modern music, presented in a manner appropriate for the general reader and specialist alike . . . Devotees of French music will return to this admirable volume again and again."
— Keith Clifton, Notes
"Halbreich offers an essential volume for understanding not only a major group of musical works French musical life from the 1920s to the 1950s."
— Publishers Weekly
"Throughout, the combinations of Halbreich’s lively prose and Honegger’s own ironic, self-effacing, yet compelling voice provides an endless treat for the reader."
— Library Journal
"This excellent, thoroughly researched book will do much to revive interest in the music of Arthur Honegger.
Halbreich does a great service in providing detailed analyses of the entirety of Honegger’s oeuvre.
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— W.E. Grim, Choice
Customer Reviews
 
Very useful | February 4, 2003
Reviewer: P. M. from Flossmoor, IL
Wonderful source material.
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