Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian author

Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Public domain image from http://www. ... Public domain image from http://www. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...

Biography

Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium, in a wealthy, French-speaking family. He wrote poems and short novels during his studies, which he destroyed later; only fragments are left. Gent at Night Ghent (IPA: ; Gent in Dutch; Gand in French, formerly Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality located in Flanders, Belgium. ...

After finishing his law studies, he spent a few months in Paris, France. He met there some members of the then new Symbolism movement, Villiers de l'Isle Adam in particular. The latter would have a big influence on the work of Maeterlinck. Part of the Paris skyline with from left to right: Montparnasse Tower, Eiffel Tower, and in the background, towers of neighboring La Défense. ... Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de lIsle-Adam (November 7, 1838 - August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer. ...

In 1889, he became famous overnight after his first play, La princesse Maleine had received enthusiastic praise from Octave Mirbeau, the literary critic of Le Figaro (August 1890). In the following years, he wrote a series of symbolist plays characterized by fatalism and mysticism, most importantly L'Intruse (The Intruder, 1890), Les Aveugles (The Blind, 1890) and Pelléas et Mélisande (1892, this last of which received several well-known musical treatments (see below). 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. ... Le Figaro is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Mysticism from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) an initiate (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning initiation[1]) is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... Pelléas et Mélisande is the name of several dramatic works. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

His greatest contemporary success, however, was the fairy play L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird, 1909). This play has been made into several films, including one made in 1940 in Technicolor, starring Shirley Temple (her first unsuccessful film), and the joint United States/Soviet Union production The Blue Bird (Russian: Sinyaya Ptitsa) (1976), starring Elizabeth Taylor (this version was also not a box office success, and was savaged by the critics). The Blue Bird refers to several things: The Blue Bird (original title LOiseau Bleu) is the title of a story by Maurice Maeterlinck. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary. ... Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American diplomat and former film child actress. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Dame Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor, DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning British actress. ...

He had a relationship with the singer Georgette Leblanc from 1895 till 1918. In 1919 he married Renée Dahon; together they went to the United States. 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1926 he published La Vie des Termites (The Life of the White Ant) plagiarising "The Soul of the White Ant" researched and written by the South African poet and scientist Eugene Marais (1871 - 1936). This act of plagiarism has been credited as one of the proximate causes of Marais's later suicide. Eugène Nielen Marais (9 January, 1871 – 29 March, 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer Eugene Marais – writer, lawyer and naturalist // His early years, before and during the Boer War Marais (Ma-RARE; second part rhymes with chair) was born near Pretoria. ...

In 1930 he bought a château in Nice, France, and named it Orlamonde, a name occurring in his work Quinze Chansons. 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Château de Fontainebleau with gardens For other senses of this word, see château (disambiguation). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: [1] (Latin: Nice the city) Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Département Alpes-Maritimes (06) Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur City (commune) Characteristics...

He was made a count by Albert I, King of the Belgians in 1932. Albert I (April 8, 1875 – February 17, 1934) was the third King of the Belgians. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...

According to an article published in the New York Times in 1940, he arrived in the United States from Lisbon on the Greek Liner Nea Hellas. He had fled to Lisbon in order to escape the Nazi invasion of both Belgium and France. The Times quoted him as saying, "I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918." The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Lisbon  - Subregion Grande Lisboa  - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor Carmona Rodrigues  - Party PSD Area 84. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

He returned to Nice, France after the war and died there in 1949. City flag City coat of arms Motto: [1] (Latin: Nice the city) Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Département Alpes-Maritimes (06) Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur City (commune) Characteristics...

Maeterlinck in Music

Pelléas et Mélisande served as the inspiration for four major turn-of-the-century musical compositions, an opera by Claude Debussy, (L 88, Paris, 1902), incidental music to the play composed by Jean Sibelius (opus 46, 1905), an orchestral suite by Gabriel Fauré (opus 80, 1898), and a symphonic poem by Arnold Schoenberg (opus 5, 1902/03). Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts by Claude Debussy to a French libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck that almost exactly follows his famous symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. ... Claude Debussy, ca. ... Sibelius redirects to this article. ... Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. ... A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, in one movement, in which some extra-musical programme provides a narrative or illustrative element. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Schoenberg redirects here. ...

Other operas, suites, symphonies based on Maeterlinck's plays include:

• Ariane et Barbe-bleue: opera in 3 acts by Paul Dukas (1899-1907; f.p. Paris, Opera-Comique, 1907)
• Princess Maleine: Bréville, Lili Boulanger
• The Seven Princesses: Bréville
• The Death of Tintagiles: Löffler, Santoliquido
• Aglavaine and Sélysette: Honegger
• Monna Vanna: Ábrányi Emil jr., Février, Rachmaninoff
• Les Aveugles (The Blind): Beat Furrer (as "Die Blinden")

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Partial bibliography

Plays

• La princesse Maleine (1889)
• L'Intruse (The Intruder) (1890)
• Les aveugles (The Blind) (1890)
• Intérieur (Interior) (1891)
• Pelléas et Mélisande (1892) - his most famous Symbolist drama, made into an opera in 1902 by Claude Debussy
• La Mort de Tintagiles (The Death of Tintagiles) (1894)
• Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)
• The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck (1899)
  • Princess Maleine
  • The Intruder
  • The Blind
  • The seven Princesses
  • Alladine and Palomides
  • Pelléas and Mélisande
  • Home
  • The Death of Tintagiles
• Sister Beatrice (1901)
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariane and Bluebeard) (1901), made into an opera by Paul Dukas
• Monna Vanna (1902)
• Joyzelle (1903)
• L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird) (1908)
• Mary Magdalene (1910)
• Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde (The Mayor of Stilmonde) (1918)
• La miracle de Saint-Antoine (The Miracle of St. Anthony) (1919)
• Berniquel (1929)

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Verse

• Serres chaudes (1889; Hot House Blooms)
• Douze chansons (1896, in 1900 re-issued as Quinze chansons)

Serres chaudes (Hothouses or Hot House Blooms) (1889) is a book of poetry by Belgian Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Prose

• Le Trésor des humbles (1896; The Treasure of the Humble)
• La Sagesse et la destinée (1898; Wisdom and Destiny)
• La Vie des abeilles (1901; The Life of the Bee)
• L'Intelligence des fleurs (1907; The Intelligence of Flowers)
• La vie des termites (1926)
• Bulles bleues (1948), autobiography

Literature

• W. L. Courtney, The Development of M. Maeterlinck (London, 1904)
• M. J. Moses, Maurice Maeterlinck: A Study (New York, 1911)
• E. Thomas, Maurice Maeterlinck, (New York, 1911)
• J. Bethell, The life and Works of Maurice Maeterlinck (New York, 1913)
• Archibald Henderson, European Dramatists (Cincinnati, 1913)
• E. E. Slosson, Major Prophets of To-Day (Boston, 1914)
• G. F. Sturgis, The Psychology of Maeterlinck as Shown in his Dramas (Boston, 1914)

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References

• In the anime Eureka Seven, the three orphans (Maurice, Maeter, and Linck) are named after him.

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External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about:

Maurice Maeterlinck

• Works by Maurice Maeterlinck at Project Gutenberg
• List of works by Maurice Maeterlinck at the Online Books Page
• a transcript of the Nobel prize presentation speech