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Writers including Verlaine and Huysmens incorporated Pierrot into their works, as did Flaubert, who early in his career wrote an unperformed pantomime entitled Pierrot au sérail. More elaborate was his role in the poetry of Jules Laforgue, where he served as both muse and emblem of the artist.
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LaForgue (1860-1887) wrote poem after poem about Pierrot. For this influential French poet, the sad clown encompassed every possible madness and gave rise to poetry which glories in the absurd. Pierrots I (1886)
Feb 13, 2017 · In Belgium, the symbolist poet Albert Giraud wrote Pierrot Lunaire (1884), a collection of fifty poems from which Arnold Schoenberg, in 1912, would select twenty-one texts to compose his groundbreaking expressionist song cycle for Sprechstimme and instruments.
Cultural references to Pierrot have been made since the inception of the character in the 17th century. His character in contemporary popular culture — in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall — is that of the sad clown, often pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart ...
Laforgue put three of the "complaints" of his first published volume of poems (1885) into "Lord" Pierrot's mouth—and dedicated his next book, The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon (1886), completely to Pierrot and his world (Pierrots were legion among the minor, now-forgotten poets: for samples, see Willette's journal The Pierrot, which appeared ...
Many writers allude to the fact that Debussy had originally subtitled the Cello Sonata “ Pierrot fâché avec la lune ”, and that the Sonata follows a descriptive scenario of Pierrot's frustration over his unrequited love.
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Sep 6, 2016 · Indeed, by the end of the eighteenth century, some two dozen biographies and commemorative poems had been written about Watteau; see Pierre Rosenberg, Vies anciennes de Watteau (Paris: Hermann, 1984); and Julie Anne Plax, “Interpreting Watteau across the Centuries,” in Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time ...
