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''Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire"'' ("Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire), commonly known simply as ''Pierrot lunaire'', Op. 21 ("Moonstruck
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" or "Pierrot in the Moonlight"), is a
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by
Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
. It is a setting of 21 selected poems from
Albert Giraud Albert Giraud (; 23 June 1860 – 26 December 1929) was a Belgian poet who wrote in French. Biography Giraud was born Emile Albert Kayenbergh in Leuven, Belgium. He studied law at the University of Leuven. He left university without a deg ...
's cycle of the same name as translated into German by
Otto Erich Hartleben Otto Erich Hartleben (3 June 1864 – in Clausthal; 11 February 1905 in Salò) was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of ''Pierrot Lunaire''. Childhood, Education and Marriage Orphaned as a child, Hartlebe ...
. The work is written for reciter (voice-type unspecified in the score, but traditionally performed by a
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) who delivers the poems in the ''Sprechstimme'' style accompanied by a small instrumental
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. Schoenberg had previously used a combination of spoken text with instrumental accompaniment, called "melodrama", in the summer-wind narrative of the ''
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'', which was a fashionable musical style popular at the end of the nineteenth century. Though the music is
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, it does not employ Schoenberg's
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, which he did not use until 1921. ''Pierrot lunaire'' is among Schoenberg's most celebrated and frequently performed works. Its instrumentation –
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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with standard doublings and in this case with the addition of a vocalist – is an important ensemble in 20th- and 21st-century classical music and is referred to as a ''
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''. The piece was premiered at the Berlin Choralion-Saal on October 16, 1912, with Albertine Zehme as the vocalist. A typical performance lasts about 35 to 40 minutes. The American premiere took place at the
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, on
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, New York, on 4 February 1923 as part of a series of concerts organised by the
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.


History

The work originated in a commission by Albertine Zehme, a former actress, for a cycle for voice and piano, setting a series of poems by the Belgian writer
Albert Giraud Albert Giraud (; 23 June 1860 – 26 December 1929) was a Belgian poet who wrote in French. Biography Giraud was born Emile Albert Kayenbergh in Leuven, Belgium. He studied law at the University of Leuven. He left university without a deg ...
. The verses had been first published in 1884 and later translated into German by
Otto Erich Hartleben Otto Erich Hartleben (3 June 1864 – in Clausthal; 11 February 1905 in Salò) was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of ''Pierrot Lunaire''. Childhood, Education and Marriage Orphaned as a child, Hartlebe ...
. Zehme had previously performed a 'melodrama' by composer Otto Vrieslander based on the translated poems. But, according to
Eduard Steuermann Eduard Steuermann (June 18, 1892 in Sambor, Austro-Hungarian Empire – November 11, 1964 in New York City) was an Austrian (and later American) pianist and composer. Steuermann studied piano with Vilém Kurz at the Lemberg Conservatory and Fer ...
, student of Schoenberg and pianist of the premiere, "the music was not strong enough, and someone advised her to approach Schoenberg." Schoenberg began work on March 12 and completed the piece on July 9, 1912, having expanded the forces to an
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consisting of
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(doubling on
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),
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in A (doubling on
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and clarinet in B),
violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
(doubling on
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),
cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
, and
piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
. After forty rehearsals, Schoenberg and Zehme (in Columbine dress) gave the premiere at the Berlin Choralion-Saal on October 16, 1912. Reaction was mixed. According to
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, some in the audience were whistling and laughing, but in the end "it was an unqualified success". According to eyewitness
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, the sister of the premiere's pianist
Eduard Steuermann Eduard Steuermann (June 18, 1892 in Sambor, Austro-Hungarian Empire – November 11, 1964 in New York City) was an Austrian (and later American) pianist and composer. Steuermann studied piano with Vilém Kurz at the Lemberg Conservatory and Fer ...
, There was some criticism of blasphemy in the texts, to which Schoenberg responded, "If they were musical, not a single one would give a damn about the words. Instead, they would go away whistling the tunes."


Structure

''Pierrot lunaire'' consists of three groups of seven poems. In the first group,
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sings of
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,
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and
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; in the second, of
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,
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, and
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; and in the third of his return home to
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, with his past haunting him. Schoenberg, who was fascinated by
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, also makes great use of seven-note motifs throughout the work, while the ensemble (with conductor) comprises seven people. The piece is his opus 21, contains 21 poems, and was begun on March 12, 1912. Other key numbers in the work are 3 and 13: each poem consists of 13 lines (two four-line verses followed by a five-line verse), while the first line of each poem occurs three times (being repeated as lines 7 and 13).


Music and text

Though written in a freely atonal style, ''Pierrot lunaire'' uses a variety of classical
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and techniques, including
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,
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,
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,
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, and free
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. The instrumental combinations (including doublings) vary between most movements. The entire ensemble is used only in Nos. 6, 11, 14, 15 (end), 16, 18, 19 (end), 20, and 21. Musicologist Alan Lessem states about the work that "on the whole instrumental textures tend to become fuller as the work progresses" and that, in general, "the piano is the leading nstrumentalprotagonist of the melodramas." The poetry is a German version of a rondeau of the old French type with a double
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. Each poem consists of three
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s of 4 + 4 + 5 lines, with the first two lines of the first stanza (1,2) repeated as the last two lines of the second stanza (7,8), and line 1 additionally repeated (13) to close the third stanza and the poem. The first poem is shown below.


''Sprechstimme'' / ''Sprechgesang''

The atonal,
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ic settings of the text, with their echoes of German
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, bring the poems vividly to life. ''
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'' is a style in which the vocalist uses the specified
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s and pitches but does not sustain the pitches, allowing them to drop or rise, in the manner of
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. Schoenberg describes the technique in a foreword to the score: In the score, ''Sprechstimme'' is indicated with small x's through the stems of notes. Though ''Sprechstimme'' is used throughout the piece, Schoenberg also occasionally indicates that certain passages are to be sung (''gesungen'').


Notable recordings

Notable recordings of this composition include: Arnold Schoenberg himself made test recordings of the music with a group of Los Angeles musicians, nearly all European immigrants, from September 24 to 26, 1940. These recordings were eventually released on LP by
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in 1949, and reissued in 1974 on the Odyssey label. The
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singer
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. Another jazz singer who has performed the piece is Sofia Jernberg, who sang it with Norrbotten NEO. The
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star
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, known for her interest in avant-garde music, performed ''Pierrot lunaire'' at the 1996
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with
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conducting. According to the singer in a 2004 interview, "Kent Nagano wanted to make a recording of it, but I really felt that I would be invading the territory of people who sing this for a lifetime ." Only small recorded excerpts (possibly bootlegs) of her performance have become available. The American mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger has performed ''Pierrot lunaire'' extensively with organizations such as the
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, Chamber Music Northwest, and Sequitur at venues including
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and Weill Recital Hall at
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. In March 2011,
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directed a performance at the
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Theatre in Berlin. This interpretation of the work included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as a female to male transgender Pierrot. LaBruce subsequently filmed this adaptation as the 2014 theatrical film ''Pierrot lunaire''.


Legacy as a standard ensemble

The quintet of instruments used in ''Pierrot lunaire'' became the core ensemble for The Fires of London, who formed in 1965 as "The Pierrot Players" to perform ''Pierrot lunaire'', and continued to concertize with a varied classical and contemporary repertory. This group performed works arranged for these instruments and commissioned new works especially to take advantage of this ensemble's instrumental colors, up until it disbanded in 1987. Over the years, other groups have continued to use this instrumentation professionally (current groups include Da Capo Chamber Players, eighth blackbird and the
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contemporary group Uusinta Lunaire ) and have built a large repertoire for the ensemble.


Notes


References

*Bryn-Julson, Phyllis, and Paul Mathews. 2009. ''Inside'' Pierrot lunaire: ''Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenberg's Masterpiece''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. (pbk); (ebook). *Byron, Avior
"The Test Pressings of Schoenberg Conducting Pierrot lunaire"
accessed May 1, 2008. *Byron, Avior. 2006–07.
Pierrot lunaire in Studio and in Broadcast: Sprechstimme, Tempo and Character
. ''Journal of the Society of Musicology in Ireland'' 2:69–91. (accessed October 29, 2008). * Dunsby, Jonathan. 1992. ''Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire''. Cambridge University Press. . * *Hazlewood, Charles. 2006.
Discovering Music
'. BBC Radio 3 (June 24). *Neighbour, Oliver W. 2001. "Schoenberg, Arnold (Franz Walter)". ''
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'', second edition, edited by
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and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. *Puffett, Kathryn. 2006. "Structural Imagery: ''Pierrot lunaire'' Revisited". ''
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'' 60, no. 237 (July): 2–22. * Rosen, Charles. 1996. ''Arnold Schoenberg'', with a new preface. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. . *Schoenberg, Arnold. 1994. ''Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot lunaire''. Dover Publications. *Winiarz, John
Schoenberg – Pierrot lunaire: an Atonal Landmark
April 1, 2000 accessed July 23, 2006.


Further reading

*Argentino, Joe. 2012. "Serialism and Neo-Riemannian Theory: Transformations and Hexatonic Cycles in Schoenberg's ''Modern Psalm'' Op. 50c". ''Intégral'' 26:123–58. *Gillespie, Jeffrey L. 1992. "Motivic Transformations and Networks in Schoenberg's 'Nacht' from ''Pierrot lunaire''". ''Intégral'' 6:34–65. *Gingerich, Katrina (2012)
"The Journey of the Song Cycle: From 'The Iliad' to 'American Idiot
''Musical Offerings'': Vol. 1: No. 2, Article 3. *Lambert, Philip. 2000. "On Contextual Transformations". ''
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'' 38, no. 1 (Winter): 45–76. *Lessem, Alan. 1979. ''Music and Text in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg: The Critical Years, 1908–22''. . *Metzer, David. 1994. "The New York Reception of ''Pierrot lunaire'': The 1923 Premiere and Its Aftermath". ''
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'' 78, no. 4 (Winter): 669–99. *Roig-Francolí, Miguel A. 2001. "A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music". ''College Music Symposium'' 41:57–90. *Weytjens, Stephan. 2004. “Text as a Crutch in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire?”. ''Pierrot lunaire: Albert Giraud, Otto Erich Hartleben, Arnold Schoenberg: a collection of musicological and literary studies.'' Delaere, Mark, Jan Herman editors. Leuven, Belgium: Éditions Peeters: 109-24.


External links

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