Michel De Ghelderode (1898 - 1962) was an avante-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French. 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...

He was born as Adhémar-Adolphe-Louis Martens in Ixelles and married in 1924 to Jeanne-Françoise Gérard. He died in Brussels. Ixelles (French) or Elsene (Dutch) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced ; French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and often by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of...

Among his influences are puppet theater and commedia dell'arte. His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death and degradation to religious exaltation. His 1934 play La Balade du grand macabre served as inspiration for György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre. A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... 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: comedy of professional artists also interpreted as comedy of humors), also known as Extemporal Comedy, was a form of improvisational theater... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... György Sándor Ligeti (born May 28, 1923) is a Jewish Hungarian composer (now living in, and a citizen of, Austria), widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. ... Le Grand Macabre (première 1978) is György Ligetis only opera to date. ...

Works

Plays

• Christophe Colomb (1927)

• Don Juan (1928)

• Barabbas (1928)

• Fastes d'enfer (1929)

• Pantagleize (1929)

• Magie rouge (1931)

• La Balade du grand macabre (1934)

• Mademoiselle Jaïre (1934)

• Hop Signor! (1935)

• Marie la misérable (1952)

• L'école des bouffons (1953)

• Les aveugles (1956)

Prose

• La Flandre est un songe (1953)

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