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<i>A Christmas Cantata</i> (Honegger)

A Christmas Cantata (Honegger)

Cantata and last composition by Arthur Honegger

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

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.

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