Albert Giraud

Belgian symbolist poet who wrote in French (born June 23, 1860, Leuven, Belgium – died December 26, 1929). His published works include 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 set a German language version (translated by Otto Erich Hartleben) of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to music.