- Tristan Klingsor
Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots,
Oise department, 8 August 1874; diedParis , August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic association with the composerMaurice Ravel .His
pseudonym , combining the names of two Wagner heroes, indicates one aspect of his artistic interests. Many of his poems are addressed to a mysterious "jeune étranger", symbolising hisgay orientation. [cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/proms2005/story/0,,1552660,00.html| title="Eastern promise"|accessdate=2007-03-24] His first collection, "Filles-fleurs" (1895), was in eleven-syllable verse. After this he often used a personal form offree verse . He was a member of the of theFantaisiste group of French poets. Certain of his poems were set to music by composers includingCharles Koechlin ,Georges Hüe andGeorges Migot , and he is best remembered as providing the texts for Ravel’ssong cycle "Shéhérazade" (1905). He and Ravel belonged to theParis avant-garde artistic group known asLes Apaches for whose meetings he was sometimes the host. He recorded his long acquaintance with the composer in an essay, "L'Époque Ravel". [cite book|title= Maurice Ravel par quelques-uns de ses familiers|publisher=Colette|location=Paris|year=1939|pages=125-39]Klingsor was also a painter (exhibiting from 1905 at the
Salon d'Automne and being awarded the Prix Puvis de Chavannes in 1952), author of several studies on art, and a composer in his own right, with several collections of melodies, four-part songs, etc.List of writings
* "Filles-Fleurs", poems,
Mercure de France , 1895
* "Squelettes fleuris", poems, Mercure de France, 1897
* "L’Escarpolette", poems, Mercure de France, 1899
* "La Jalousie du Vizir", story, Mercure de France, 1899
* "Le Livre d'Esquisses", poems, Mercure de France, 1900
* "Schéhérazade", poems, Mercure de France, 1903
* "Petits métiers des rues de Paris", prose, 1904
* "La Duègne apprivoisée", comedy, 1907
* "Le Valet de Cœur", poems, Mercure de France, 1908
* "Les caprices de Goya", critical essay, 1909
* "Les Femmes de théâtre au XVIIIe siècle", 1911
* "Poèmes de Bohème", poems, Mercure de France, 1913
* "Hubert Robert et les paysagistes français du XVIIIe siècle", 1913
* "Les derniers-états des lettres et des arts : la peinture", 1913
* "Chroniques du Chaperon et de la Braguette", poems, 1913
* "La Peinture (L’art français depuis vingt ans)", Rieder, Paris, 1921
* "Humoresques", poems, 1921
* "L'Escarbille d'or", poems, Chiberre, Paris, 1922
* "La Peinture (L’art français depuis vingt-cinq ans)", Rieder, Paris, 1922
* "Cézanne ", Rieder, Paris, 1923
* "Chardin", collection Maîtres Anciens et Modernes, Nilsson, Paris, 1924
* "Essai sur le chapeau", Les Cahiers de Paris, 1926
* "Léonard de Vinci" (Maîtres de l'art ancien), Rieder, Paris, 1930
* "Poèmes du Brugnon", 1933
* "Mesures pour rien", in "Poésie 42", 1942
* "Cinquante Sonnets du Dormeur éveillé", 1949
* "Florilège poétique", poems selected by Georges Bouquet andPierre Menanteau , L’Amitié par le livre, Blainville-sur-Mer, 1955
* "Album", 1955
* "Claude Lepape", 1958
* "Le Tambour voilé", Mercure de France, 1960
* "Second florilège", with illustrations by the poet, 1964
* "Maisons Aloysius", 1964
* "L’Art de peindre", collection Initiations, Braun, Paris
* "Poèmes de la princesse Chou", 1974References
External links
* [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/k/klingsor/ Klingsor texts set to music]
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