In this new interview, Bernard Fournier presents Arthur Honegger’s Quatuor à cordes n°1 to us.

Despite being a part of Groupe des Six, Arthur Honegger is indisputably a traditionally Germanic composer, who distances himself from the French taste for entertainment and lighter music.

The taste for counterpoint, energy, power and gravity are characteristics, as much of the man as his music.

Bernard Fournier speaks to us with the greatest pleasure, and delivers a detailed analysis about the different influences of this composer, from Bach and Beethoven, to Max Reger, Béla Bartók, and Florent Schmitt.