Editing Albert Giraud (section)

==Biography==
Giraud was born Emile Albert Kayenbergh in [[Leuven]], Belgium. He studied law at the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|University of Leuven]]. He left university without a degree and took up journalism and poetry. In 1885, Giraud became a member of [[La Jeune Belgique]], a Belgian nationalist literary movement that met at the Café Sésino in Brussels.<ref>''Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire'', translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter.</ref> Giraud became chief librarian at the Belgian Ministry of the Interior.

He was a [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] poet. His published works include ''[[Pierrot lunaire (book)|Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques]]'' (1884), a poem cycle based on the [[commedia dell'arte]] figure of [[Pierrot]], and ''La Guirlande des Dieux'' (1910). The composer [[Arnold Schoenberg|Arnold Schönberg]] set a German-language version (translated by [[Otto Erich Hartleben]]) of selections from his ''[[Pierrot Lunaire]]'' to innovative [[atonal music]]. In a different, late romantic style, some of Hartleben's translations found their way into the vocal works of [[Joseph Marx]].
[[File:Leuven Sint-Donatuspark IV.jpg|alt=|thumb|Dedicated sculpture in Leuven Sint Donatuspark]]