A Christmas Cantata

A Christmas Cantata

A Christmas Cantata (in French "Une Cantate de Noël", in German "Eine Weihnachtskantate") is a cantata composed by Arthur Honegger in 1953; it is reportedly Honegger's last composition ever. 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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