Albert Giraud

Marie Émile Albert Kayenbergh (Known as "Albert Giraud")

Symbolist Poet, Creator of Pierrot Lunaire, Set to Music by Arnold Schoenberg

Born Jun 23, 1860

Leuven, Belgium

Passed Away Dec 26, 1929 Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium

Lifespan 69 years old

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"Un rayon de lune blanc / Est posé sur le buffet / Comme un lis qui dort en paix."

Archival Overview

Belgian Parnassian and Symbolist poet whose 1884 poetic masterwork Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels bergamasques achieved worldwide immortality when set to groundbreaking modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg.

Biographical Record

Studying law at the University of Leuven before turning to journalism in Brussels, Giraud was a co-founder of La Jeune Belgique. He championed strict Parnassian form and exquisite poetic musicality against free verse innovations.

In 1884, he published Pierrot Lunaire, a cycle of fifty rondels depicting the tragic, moonlight-crazed commedia dell'arte clown Pierrot. Translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben, twenty-one of Giraud's poems were set to music by Arnold Schoenberg in his revolutionary 1912 expressionist masterpiece (Op. 21).

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Schaerbeek Cemetery
Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium

                         GPS: 50.8667, 4.3833                    

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