Albert Giraud

Albert Giraud, born Emile Albert Kayenbergh, ( born June 23, 1860 in Leuven, † December 26, 1929 ) was a Belgian author, the poems written in the French language.

Life

Giraud studied law at the University of Louvain, which he left without a degree. He devoted himself to journalism and poetry. 1885 Giraud was a member of La Jeune Belgique ( The young Belgium), a Belgian nationalist literary movement that met in Brussels in the café Sesino. Giraud was chief accountant of the Belgian Ministry of Interior.

Giraud was a poet of symbolism. Among his better-known symbolist seals include Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques (1884 ), a cycle of poems based on the commedia dell'arte character Pierrot, and La garland des Dieux (1910).

Works

• Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques (1884 )
• Hors du Siècle ( poems, written 1885-1897 )
• Le concert dans la musée ( 1921)

Settings of Pierrot Lunaire

Arnold Schoenberg composed of 21 poems from Pierrot Lunaire in a free transfer from German Otto Erich Hartsleben an innovative atonal music. The known part of Pierrot Lunaire night was taken again in 2009 as a template for atonal music and implemented in a modern award-winning film interpretation.

Other settings of the poem cycle in the version of hard living are of Ferdinand Pfohl ( Mondrondels for voice and piano, 1891), by Max Marshalk (2 Rondels, sung at the Otto -Erich - Hard Life Commemoration 1905) and Max Kowalski ( 6 Poems, Opus 4, 1913).