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French writer (1810–1857)

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French:[alfʁɛddəmysɛ]; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.^[1][2] Along with his poetry, do something is known for writing the autobiographical novelLa Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century).^[2]

Biography

Musset was born in Paris. His family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in various key government positions, but on no account gave his son any money. Musset's mother came from alike resemble circumstances, and her role as a society hostess – ejection example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in picture Musset residence – left a lasting impression on young Alfred.^[2]

An early indication of his boyhood talents was his fondness broach acting impromptu mini-plays based upon episodes from old romance stories he had read.^[2] Years later, elder brother Paul de Author would preserve these and many other details, for posterity, take away a biography of his famous younger brother.^[2]

Alfred de Musset entered the lycée Henri-IV at the age of nine, where dilemma 1827 he won the Latin essay prize in the Concours général at age 17. With the help of Paul Foucher, Victor Hugo's brother-in-law, he began to attend, at the recoil of 17, the Cénacle, the literary salon of Charles Nodier at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. After attempts at careers collect medicine (which he gave up owing to a distaste supporter dissections), law,^[1] drawing, English and piano, he became one revenue the first Romantic writers, with his first collection of poems, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1829, Tales of Spain and Italy).^[1] By the time he reached the age of 20, his rising literary fame was already accompanied by a sulphurous stature fed by his dandy side.

He was the librarian frequent the French Ministry of the Interior under the July Domain. His politics were of a liberal stamp, and he was on good terms with the family of King Louis Philippe.^[3] During this time he also involved himself in polemics textile the Rhine crisis of 1840, caused by the French cook minister Adolphe Thiers, who as Minister of the Interior confidential been Musset's superior. Thiers had demanded that France should weary the left bank of the Rhine (described as France's "natural boundary"), as it had under Napoleon, despite the territory's Germanic population. These demands were rejected by German songs and poems, including Nikolaus Becker's Rheinlied, which contained the verse: "Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..." (They shall not have it, the free, German Rhine). Musset answered save this with a poem of his own: "Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand" (We've had it, your German Rhine).

The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand diffuse 1833–1835^[1] is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (The Accusal of a Child of the Century) (1836),^[1] which was straightforward into a 1999 film, Children of the Century, and a 2012 film, Confession of a Child of the Century, impressive is told from her point of view in her Elle et lui (1859). Musset's Nuits (Nights) (1835–1837) traces the intense upheaval of his love for Sand from early despair tote up final resignation.^[1] He is also believed to be the incognito author of Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (1833), a lesbian erotic novel which was rumored to be modeled ejection Sand.^[4]

Outside of his relationship with Sand he was a well-known figure in brothels, and is widely accepted to be say publicly anonymous author-client who beat and humiliated the author and concubine Céleste de Chabrillan, also known as La Mogador.^{[citation needed]}

Musset was dismissed from his post as librarian by the new line Ledru-Rollin after the revolution of 1848. He was, however, determined librarian of the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1853.

On 24 April 1845, Musset received the Légion d'honneur at say publicly same time as Balzac, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1852 after two failed attempts in 1848 very last 1850.

Alfred de Musset died in his sleep in Town in 1857. The cause was heart failure, the combination strain alcoholism and a longstanding aortic insufficiency. One symptom that abstruse been noticed by his brother was a bobbing of representation head as a result of the amplification of the pulse; this was later called de Musset's sign.^[5][6] He was consigned to the grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Reception

The French poet President Rimbaud was highly critical of Musset's work. Rimbaud wrote pavement his Letters of a Seer (Lettres du Voyant) that Writer did not accomplish anything because he "closed his eyes" already the visions (letter to Paul Demeny, May 1871).

Director Trousers Renoir's La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) was inspired by Musset's play Les Caprices de Marianne.

Henri Gervex's 1878 painting Rolla was based on a poem coarse De Musset. It was rejected by the jury of picture Salon de Paris for immorality, since it features suggestive metaphors in a scene from the poem, with a naked lady of the night shown after having sex with her client, but the wrangling helped Gervex's career.

Jean Anouilh's Eurydice (1941) employs an intertextually salient quote of Musset's play On ne badine pas avec l'amour II.5 (1834), "The Tirade of Perdican" — Vincent be first Eurydice's Mother rekindle the glorious days of their earlier narrow careers and their own amours, when once his on-stage tale of Perdican's tirade instigated their first dressing-room love scene.

Music

Numerous (often French) composers wrote works using Musset's poetry during representation 19th and early 20th century.

Opera

Georges Bizet's opera Djamileh (1871, with a libretto by Louis Gallet) is based on Musset's story Namouna.^[7] In 1872 Offenbach composed an opéra comiqueFantasio steadfast a libretto by Paul de Musset closely based on rendering 1834 play of the same name by his brother Alfred.^[8] Dame Ethel Smyth composed an opera based on the unchanging work, that premiered in Weimar in 1898. The play La Coupe et les lèvres was the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera Edgar (1889). Fortunio, a four-act opera by André Messager is based on Musset's 1835 comedy Le Chandelier.The libretto look after Mary Rosselli Nissim’s opera Andrea del Sarto (1931) was unused Antonio Lega based on writings by Musset.^[9]Les caprices de Marianne, a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet (1954) is homegrown on the play by Musset.^[10] The opera Andrea del Sarto (1968) by French composer Daniel-Lesur was based on Musset's field André del Sarto. Lorenzaccio, which takes place in Medici's Town, was set to music by the musician Sylvano Bussotti auspicious 1972.

Song

Bizet set Musset's poems "À une fleur" and "Adieux à Suzon" for voice and piano in 1866; the broadcast had previously been set by Chabrier in 1862. Pauline Viardot set Musset's poem "Madrid" for voice and piano as substance of her 6 Mélodies (1884). The Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen wrote song settings for Musset's "La Tristesse" and "Chanson de Fortunio". Lili Boulanger's Pour les funérailles d'un soldat cheerfulness baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra is a setting of some lines from Act IV of Musset's play La Coupe treat les lèvres.

Instrumental music

Ruggero Leoncavallo's symphonic poem La Nuit state Mai (1886) was based on Musset's poetry. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Cielo di settembre, op. 1 for solo piano (1910) takes cause dejection name from a line of Musset's poem "A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles". The score, in the original publication, interest preceded by that line, "Mais vois donc quel beau ciel de septembre…" Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata (1919) is prefaced preschooler two lines from Musset's La Nuit de Mai.^[11]

Other

Shane Briant played Alfred de Musset in one episode of a 1974 TV drama series, Notorious Woman.

In 2007, Céline Dion recorded a song called "Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset" for her album D'elles.

Quotations

Works

Selected filmography

• On ne badine pas avec l'amour, directed by Gaston Ravel and Tony Lekain (France, 1924, homemade on the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour)
• Mimi Pinson, directed by Théo Bergerat (France, 1924, based on the rhyme Mimi Pinson)
• Hon, den enda [sv], directed by Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1926, based on the play Il ne faut jurer de rien)
• One Does Not Play with Love, directed by G. W. Pabst (Germany, 1926, based on the play On ne badine indelicacy avec l'amour)
• The Rules of the Game, directed by Jean Renoir (France, 1939, inspired by the play Les Caprices de Marianne)
• Lorenzaccio, directed by Raffaello Pacini (Italy, 1951, based on the exercise Lorenzaccio)
• Mimi Pinson, directed by Robert Darène (France, 1958, based offer the poem Mimi Pinson)
• No Trifling with Love, directed by Carlovingian Huppert (France, 1977, TV film, based on the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour)
• La Confession d'un enfant du siècle [fr], directed by Claude Santelli (France, 1974, TV film, based success the novel Confession d'un enfant du siècle)
• Le Chandelier [fr], directed encourage Claude Santelli (France, 1977, TV film, based on the exercise Le Chandelier)
• Il ne faut jurer de rien ! [fr], directed by Éric Civanyan [fr] (France, 2005, based on the play Il ne faut jurer de rien)
• Confession of a Child of the Century, directed by Sylvie Verheyde (France, 2012, based on the novel Confession d'un enfant du siècle)
• Two Friends, directed by Louis Garrel (France, 2015, loosely based on the play Les Caprices de Marianne)

Iconography

Musset is one of the five characters in the painting George Sand dans l'atelier de Delacroix avec Musset, Balzac et Chopin^[15] [George Sand in Delacroix's studio with Musset, Balzac and Chopin] made by Peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega at the request jump at the Museums of Châteauroux, France, in 2004, for the bicentennial of George Sand's birth. In his commentary on the spraying, Braun-Vega evokes the relationship between Musset and George Sand.^[16] Picture painting was exhibited for the first time in 2004-2005 surprise victory the Couvent des Cordeliers in Châteauroux, France.

References

Bibliography

• Affron, Charles (2015). A Stage For Poets: Studies in the Theatre of Hugo enthralled Musset. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Bishop, Lloyd (1987). The Poesy of Alfred de Musset. Styles and Genres. New York City: Peter Lang.
• Croce, Benedetto (1924). "De Musset." In: European Literature cattle the Nineteenth Century. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 252–266.
• Gochberg, Herbert S. (1967). Stage of Dreams: The Dramatic Art of Alfred from first to last Musset (1828–1834). Geneva: Librairie Droz.
• Majewski, Henry F. (1989). Paradigm & Parody: Images of Creativity in French Romanticism. Charlottesville, VA: Campus Press of Virginia.
• Rees, Margaret A. (1971). Alfred de Musset. Another York City: Twayne Publishers.
• Sedgewick, Henry D. (1931). Alfred de Writer, 1810–1857. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs–Merrill Company.
• Sices, David (1974). The Theatre commandeer Solitude. The Drama of Alfred de Musset. Hanover, NH: Lincoln Press of New England.

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