Arthur Honegger's Rugby (1928) uses conflicting time signatures, 3/4 and 4/4, to symbolize the two opposing teams in the game.
Composer Biography
Arthur Honegger, a member of the group of composers known as 'Les Six,' was born in France to a Swiss family and lived there his entire life.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The three composers on this album, Arthur Honegger, Othmar Schoeck, and Dimitri Mitropoulos, all strove to express universal feelings of conflict and upheaval in a balanced form within well-defined structural frameworks.
Composition History
Othmar Schoeck's Lebendig begraben ('Buried Alive,' 1926) is a monumental composition for baritone and orchestra based on poems by Gottfried Keller, a master of literary realism.
Historical Context
The 1920s, known as the 'Roaring Twenties,' were a time of unprecedented experimentation and innovation in all the arts, including music, following the devastation of World War I.
Composer Biography
Dimitri Mitropoulos, a renowned 20th-century conductor and Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, was also an accomplished composer in his younger years, having studied with Ferruccio Busoni.
Cultural Impact
James Joyce was deeply impressed by Schoeck's Lebendig begraben, rating Schoeck 'head and shoulders over Stravinsky and [George] Antheil as a composer for orchestra and voice anyhow.'
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