Editing Alfred de Musset (section)

==Music==
Numerous (often French) composers wrote works using Musset's poetry during the 19th and early 20th century.

; Opera

[[Georges Bizet]]'s opera ''[[Djamileh]]'' (1871, with a libretto by [[Louis Gallet]]) is based on Musset's story ''Namouna''.<ref name=Grove-Djamileh>{{cite encyclopedia | last=Macdonald | first=Hugh | title=Djamileh |encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Opera]] – Grove Music Online |publisher=Oxford Music Online |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O004162 | access-date = 4 September 2014}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 1872 [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]] composed an [[opéra comique]] ''[[Fantasio (opera)|Fantasio]]'' with a [[libretto]] by [[Paul de Musset]] closely based on the 1834 play of the same name by his brother Alfred.<ref>[[Andrew Lamb (writer)|Lamb A.]], "Jacques Offenbach" (work list). In: ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'', Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.</ref> Dame [[Ethel Smyth]] composed an opera based on the same work, that premiered in Weimar in 1898. The play ''La Coupe et les lèvres'' was the basis of [[Giacomo Puccini]]'s opera ''[[Edgar (opera)|Edgar]]'' (1889). ''[[Fortunio (opera)|Fortunio]]'', a four-act [[opera]] by [[André Messager]] is based on Musset's 1835 comedy ''[[Le Chandelier]]''.The libretto of [[Mary Rosselli Nissim]]’s opera ''Andrea del Sarto'' (1931) was by Antonio Lega based on writings by Musset.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-313-24272-4 |pages=601 |language=en}}</ref>''[[Les caprices de Marianne]]'', a two-act [[opéra comique]] by [[Henri Sauguet]] (1954) is based on the play by Musset.<ref>Hoérée A & Langham Smith R. Henri Sauguet. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.</ref> The opera ''Andrea del Sarto'' (1968) by French composer [[Daniel-Lesur]] was based on Musset's play ''André del Sarto''. ''Lorenzaccio'', which takes place in Medici's Florence, was set to music by the musician [[Sylvano Bussotti]] in 1972.

; Song

Bizet set Musset's poems "À une fleur" and "Adieux à Suzon" for voice and piano in 1866; the latter had previously been set by [[Emmanuel Chabrier|Chabrier]] in 1862. [[Pauline Viardot]] set Musset's poem "Madrid" for voice and piano as part of her 6 Mélodies (1884). The Welsh composer [[Morfydd Llwyn Owen]] wrote song settings for Musset's  "La Tristesse" and "Chanson de Fortunio". [[Lili Boulanger]]'s ''Pour les funérailles d'un soldat'' for baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra is a setting of several lines from Act IV of Musset's play ''La Coupe et les lèvres''.

; Instrumental music

[[Ruggero Leoncavallo]]'s symphonic poem ''La Nuit de Mai'' (1886) was based on Musset's poetry. [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]]'s ''Cielo di settembre'', op. 1 for solo piano (1910) takes its name from a line of Musset's poem "A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles". The score, in the original publication, is preceded by that line, "Mais vois donc quel beau ciel de septembre…" [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]]'s ''Viola Sonata'' (1919) is prefaced by two lines from Musset's ''La Nuit de Mai''.<ref name="Grove Music Online">{{cite web |last=Curtis |first=Liane |title=Clarke, Rebecca |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/44728 |website=Oxford Music Online |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref>

; Other

[[Shane Briant]] played Alfred de Musset in one episode of a 1974 TV drama series, ''Notorious Woman''.

In 2007, [[Céline Dion]] recorded a song called "Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset" for her album ''D'elles''.