Deryk Barker wrote:

>Denis Fodor ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>>...  It occurs to me that the French have a few names that surely qualify
>>as heavweights, eg, Milhaud, Honnegger, ...
>
>Although he mainly worked in France, wasn't Honegger actually Swiss?

Yes (both parents were Swiss), although, as you say, he spent the most
of his life in France; and I believe he was also born in France.  Given
Honegger's nearly life-long work in France, and his affiliation with "Les
Six," I suspect he should be regarded as a "French composer."

Drew Capuder
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