Albert Giraud
Albert Giraud (1860-1929) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language.
He was a minor Symbolist poet. His published works include Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques (1884), a poem cycle based on the commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot, and La Guirlande des Dieux (1910). His chief claim to fame, though, was that the composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music.
Quotation
- Coucher de soleil
- Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines
- Sur un lit de nuages roux:
- Son sang, par la bouche des trous,
- S'éjacule en rouges fontaines.
- Les rameaux convulsifs des chênes
- Flagellent les horizons fous;
- Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines
- Sur un lit de nuages roux:
- Comme, après les hontes romaines,
- Un débauché plein de dégoûts
- Laissant jusqu'aux sales égouts
- Saigner ses artères malsaines,
- Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines!
- --- Pierrot Lunaire
Referenced By
1860 | List of people by name: Gi | List of poetry collections | Pierrot Lunaire | Symbolism (arts)
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