Albert Giraud
Albert Giraud , born Emile Albert Kayenbergh (born June 23, 1860 in Leuven ; † December 26, 1929 ), was a Belgian author who wrote poetry in French.
Life
Giraud studied law at the University of Leuven , which he left without a degree. He devoted himself to journalism and poetry. In 1885 he became a member of La Jeune Belgique (Young Belgium), a Belgian nationalist literary movement that met at Café Sésino in Brussels. Giraud became chief accountant at the Belgian Ministry of the Interior.
Giraud was a symbolism poet . His more famous symbolist poems include Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques (1884), a cycle of poems based on the Commedia dell'arte -Figur des Pierrot , and La Guirlande des Dieux (1910).
Works
- Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques (1884)
- Hors du Siècle (poems written between 1885 and 1897)
- Le concert dans la musée (1921)
Settings by Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schönberg composed innovative atonal music from 21 poems from Pierrot Lunaire in a free German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben . The well-known part of Night from Pierrot Lunaire was used again in 2009 as a template for atonal music and implemented in a modern, award-winning film interpretation.
Further settings of the cycle of poems in Hartleben's version come from Ferdinand Pfohl (Mondrondels for a voice and pianoforte, 1891), Max Marschalk (2 rondels, sung at the Otto Erich Hartleben Memorial Service in 1905) and Max Kowalski (6 poems op. 4, 1913).
Web links
- Three times seven poems from Albert Giraud's "Pierrot lunaire" op. 21 Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben.
- Pierrot lunaire poems by Albert Giraud in selection. Transfer from Otto Erich Hartleben. Setting by Arnold Schönberg
- Night from Pierrot Lunaire with atonal music
- Night from Pierrot Lunaire with original music by Arnold Schönberg
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire , translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter, Truman State University Press, 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giraud, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leuven |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1929 |