The text for Mondestrunken and the other pieces of Pierrot Lunaire are based on poems written by the Belgian writer Albert Giraud, which got later translated into German by Otto Erich Hart Leben.
Albert Giraud, a Belgian symbolist poet who's works are written in French. His published works include “Pierrot Lunaire”.
The Arnold Schoenberg's “Pierrot Lunaire” is the story of a moonstruck clown, a 20th Century descendant of the classic comedy of Dell'Arte clown. It's not a real story, though it's more about storytelling.
It is so because Arnold Schoenberg's work Pierrot Lunaire is the perfect example of an expressionist work. In this work he used sprechstimme, which is a vocal technique, its meaning is that the melodic line is half-spoken, half-sung.
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