Albert Girauds Pierrot Lunaire

This is the first English translation of Belgian poet Albert Giraud's collection of fifty poems, Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques (1884). Giraud's work was translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben, and 21 of those poems were used by Arnold Schoenberg in his masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire (1912)one of the defining compositions of the 20th century. These English renderings reveal the extent to which Hartleben introduced changes as he translated the work. Taken as a whole, this trilingual edition suggests how the French fin de sicle served as a model for the early-20th-century German avant-garde, which culminated in Schoenberg's masterpiece