There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.