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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

La sérénade de Pierrot
Language: French (Français) 
D'un grotesque archet dissonant
Agaçant sa viole plate,
A la héron, sur une patte,
Il pince un air inconvenant.

Soudain Cassandre, intervenant,
Blâme ce nocturne acrobate,
D'un grotesque archet dissonant
Agaçant sa viole plate.

Pierrot la rejette, et prenant
D'une poigne très délicate
Le vieux par sa roide cravate,
Zèbre son ventre bedonnant
D'un grotesque archet dissonant.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "La sérénade de Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Serenade", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Conrad Ramrath, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 57

Mit groteskem Riesenbogen
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN
Mit groteskem Riesenbogen
Kratzt Pierrot auf seiner Bratsche,
Wie der Storch auf einem Beine,
Knipst er trüb ein Pizzicato.

Plötzlich naht Cassander - wütend
Ob des nächtgen Virtuosen -
Mit groteskem Riesenbogen
Kratzt Pierrot auf seiner Bratsche.

Von sich wirft er jetzt die Bratsche:
Mit der delikaten Linken
Faßt den Kahlkopf er am Kragen -
Träumend spielt er auf der Glatze
Mit groteskem Riesenbogen.

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•   C. Ramrath 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Serenade", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "La sérénade de Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Conrad Ramrath (1880 - 1972), "Mit groteskem Riesenbogen", published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Dreililien-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Serenade", op. 21 no. 19 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 19 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Serenade", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 41, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "小夜曲", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Serenade", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sérénade", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Serenata", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Serenade", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 62

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