Editing Albert Giraud

{{Short description|Belgian poet}}
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'''Albert Giraud''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒiʁo|lang}}; 23 June 1860 &ndash; 26 December 1929) was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] poet who wrote in  French.

==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]]

==Works==
*''[[Pierrot lunaire (book)|Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques]]'' (1884)
*''Hors du Siècle'' (poems written between 1885 and 1897)
*''Le concert dans la musée'' (1921) 
*''Le Miroir caché'' ([[sonnet]]s) (1921)

==Notes==
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==References==
*''Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire'', translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter, Truman State University Press, 2001.
*Albert Giraud, "Pierrot Lunaire," Schoenberg's selection, translated by Cecil Gray http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/music/pierrot/pierrot.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215061658/http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/music/pierrot/pierrot.pdf |date=15 December 2017 }}.
*Albert Giraud, ''Le Miroir caché'', Éditions de la Vie Intellectuelle, Bruxelles, 1921. 
*Arnold Schoenberg, "Complete performance: Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire," Ricardo Muti & Chicago SO, recorded February 2012, with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2cBUJmDr8.
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