Pierrot Lunaire (disambiguation)

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Pierrot Lunaire is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg.

Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire", commonly known simply as Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg. It is a setting of 21 selected poems from Albert Giraud's cycle of the same name as translated to German by Otto Erich Hartleben.

Pierrot Lunaire may also refer to:

Pierrot lunaire (book), the cycle of poems by Albert Giraud
Pierrot Lunaire (band), the Italian band
Pierrot Lunaire (film), a 2014 film

Pierrot lunaire: rondels bergamasques is a cycle of fifty poems published in 1884 by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud, who is usually associated with the Symbolist Movement. The protagonist of the cycle is Pierrot, the comic servant of the French Commedia dell'Arte and, later, of Parisian boulevard pantomime. The early 19th-century Romantics, Théophile Gautier most notably, had been drawn to the figure by his Chaplinesque pluckiness and pathos, and by the end of the century, especially in the hands of the Symbolists and Decadents, Pierrot had evolved into an alter-ego of the artist, particularly of the so-called poète maudit. He became the subject of numerous compositions, theatrical, literary, musical, and graphic.

Pierrot Lunaire was an Avant-prog/Progressive folk band from Italy.

Pierrot Lunaire is a Canadian/German film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.

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