Tristan Klingsor

Tristan Klingsor (actually Arthur Justin Léon Leclère ), ( born August 8, 1874 in Lachapelle- aux -Pots, Oise, † 1966 in Paris) was a French writer, composer, painter and music critic.

After his school education in his native Klingsor attended the Collège of Beauvais and took piano lessons. From 1895 he took painting lessons at the École du Louvre in Paris. After 1900 he was next to Maurice Ravel to the artist circle of Les Apaches.

1895 appeared Klingsor's first book of poems - Filles Fleurs, who took up themes from the vicinity of the opera of Richard Wagner, whose opera hero after he had chosen his pseudonym. From his collection of poems Schéhérazade (1903 ) set to music Ravel three poems. 1915 Ravel dedicated to him the first of his Trois chansons. In the period before the First World War alongside Tristan Francis Carco, Jean -Marc Bernard, Tristan Derème and Jean Pellerin belonged to the group of poets Les Fantaisistes. His friendship with Ravel described Tristan in 1939 in the essay L' Époque Ravel.

In addition to other volumes of poetry published Tristan art-historical and critical works. He emerged as a composer of songs and has also been successful as a painter. He had an exhibition in 1905 at the Paris Autumn Salon in 1952 and won the Prix Puvis de Chavannes.