Albert Giraud (1860-1929) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... -1... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...

He was a minor Symbolist poet. His published works include Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques (1884), a poem cycle based on the commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot, and La Guirlande des Dieux (1910). His chief claim to fame, though, was that the composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music. Symbolism is the systematic or creative use of arbitrary symbols as abstracted representations of concepts or objects and the distinct relationships in between, as they define both context and the narrower definition of terms. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Karel Dujardins set his closely-observed scene of a travelling troupes makeshift stage against idealized ruins in the Roman Campagna: dated 1657 (Louvre Museum) Commedia dellarte (Italian, meaning comedy of professional artists but has also been interpreted as comedy of humors) also known as Extemporal Commedy was a... Watteaus commedia dellarte player of Pierrot, ca 1718-19, traditionally identified as Gilles (Louvre) Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 For the American music critic and journalist, see Harold Charles Schonberg. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot or Pierrot in the moonlight) is an important work of Arnold Schoenberg, a setting of Albert Girauds work of French poems of the same name to music, translated into German. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ...

Quotation

Coucher de soleil

Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines

Sur un lit de nuages roux:

Son sang, par la bouche des trous,

S'éjacule en rouges fontaines.

Les rameaux convulsifs des chênes

Flagellent les horizons fous;

Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines

Sur un lit de nuages roux:

Comme, après les hontes romaines,

Un débauché plein de dégoûts

Laissant jusqu'aux sales égouts

Saigner ses artères malsaines,

Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines!

--- Pierrot Lunaire