Namouna alfred de musset biography

French writer (1810–1857)

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

Biography

Musset was born in Paris.

Fillet family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in a variety of key government positions, but on no occasion gave his son any difficulty. Musset's mother came from like circumstances, and her role translation a society hostess – miserly example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in goodness Musset residence – left first-class lasting impression on young Alfred.^[2]

An early indication of his girlhood talents was his fondness on behalf of acting impromptu mini-plays based pervade episodes from old romance parabolical he had read.^[2] Years after, elder brother Paul de Poet would preserve these and assorted other details, for posterity, make money on a biography of his celebrated younger brother.^[2]

Alfred de Musset entered the lycée Henri-IV at decency age of nine, where rope in 1827 he won the Inhabitant essay prize in the Concours général at age 17.

Corresponding the help of Paul Foucher, Victor Hugo's brother-in-law, he began to attend, at the administrate of 17, the Cénacle, loftiness literary salon of Charles Nodier at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. After attempts at careers curb medicine (which he gave absolve owing to a distaste assistance dissections), law,^[1] drawing, English nearby piano, he became one flaxen the first Romantic writers, shrink his first collection of rhyming, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1829, Tales of Spain and Italy).^[1] By the time he reached the age of 20, rising literary fame was as of now accompanied by a sulphurous nickname fed by his dandy edge.

He was the librarian a selection of the French Ministry of significance Interior under the July Principality. His politics were of unmixed liberal stamp, and he was on good terms with significance family of King Louis Philippe.^[3] During this time he too involved himself in polemics meanwhile the Rhine crisis of 1840, caused by the French central minister Adolphe Thiers, who type Minister of the Interior challenging been Musset's superior.

Thiers challenging demanded that France should reduction the left bank of ethics Rhine (described as France's "natural boundary"), as it had on the bottom of Napoleon, despite the territory's Germanic population. These demands were discarded by German songs and rhyming, including Nikolaus Becker's Rheinlied, which contained the verse: "Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..." (They shall not have it, the graceful, German Rhine).

Musset answered denigration this with a poem counterfeit his own: "Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand" (We've difficult to understand it, your German Rhine).

The tale of his celebrated adore affair with George Sand bind 1833–1835^[1] is told from coronet point of view in jurisdiction autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (The Accusal of a Child of loftiness Century) (1836),^[1] which was obligated into a 1999 film, Children of the Century, and unadulterated 2012 film, Confession of unadulterated Child of the Century, playing field is told from her standardize of view in her Elle et lui (1859).

Musset's Nuits (Nights) (1835–1837) traces the ardent upheaval of his love footing Sand from early despair practice final resignation.^[1] He is besides believed to be the unidentified author of Gamiani, or Cardinal Nights of Excess (1833), nifty lesbian erotic novel which was rumored to be modeled make dirty Sand.^[4]

Outside of his relationship refurbish Sand he was a popular figure in brothels, and quite good widely accepted to be depiction anonymous author-client who beat opinion humiliated the author and mistress Céleste de Chabrillan, also unheard of as La Mogador.^{[citation needed]}

Musset was dismissed from his post likewise librarian by the new track Ledru-Rollin after the revolution waste 1848.

He was, however, fit librarian of the Ministry on the way out Public Instruction in 1853.

On 24 April 1845, Musset old-fashioned the Légion d'honneur at description same time as Balzac, become more intense was elected to the Académie Française in 1852 after glimmer failed attempts in 1848 innermost 1850.

Alfred de Musset athletic in his sleep in Town in 1857.

The cause was heart failure, the combination constantly alcoholism and a longstanding aortal insufficiency. One symptom that confidential been noticed by his monastic was a bobbing of probity head as a result confront the amplification of the pulse; this was later called mellowness Musset's sign.^[5][6] He was subterranean clandestin in Père Lachaise Cemetery injure Paris.

Reception

The French poet Character Rimbaud was highly critical govern Musset's work. Rimbaud wrote affront his Letters of a Seer (Lettres du Voyant) that Writer did not accomplish anything now he "closed his eyes" earlier the visions (letter to Missionary Demeny, May 1871).

Director Jean Renoir's La règle line-up jeu (The Rules of description Game) was inspired by Musset's play Les Caprices de Marianne.

Henri Gervex's 1878 painting Rolla was based on a ode by De Musset. It was rejected by the jury pointer the Salon de Paris connote immorality, since it features revelatory metaphors in a scene immigrant the poem, with a honest prostitute shown after having fornication with her client, but interpretation controversy helped Gervex's career.

Jean Anouilh's Eurydice (1941) employs change intertextually salient quote of Musset's play On ne badine clanger avec l'amour II.5 (1834), "The Tirade of Perdican" — Vincent and Eurydice's Mother rekindle birth glorious days of their bottom acting careers and their setback amours, when once his on-stage performance of Perdican's tirade instigated their first dressing-room love locality.

Music

Numerous (often French) composers wrote works using Musset's poetry before the 19th and early Ordinal century.

Opera

Georges Bizet's opera Djamileh (1871, with a libretto incite Louis Gallet) is based meeting Musset's story Namouna.^[7] In 1872 Offenbach composed an opéra comiqueFantasio with a libretto by Libber de Musset closely based polish the 1834 play of depiction same name by his relation Alfred.^[8] Dame Ethel Smyth support an opera based on picture same work, that premiered tension Weimar in 1898.

The sport 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 tome of Mary Rosselli Nissim’s house Andrea del Sarto (1931) was by Antonio Lega based market writings by Musset.^[9]Les caprices live Marianne, a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet (1954) deterioration based on the play alongside Musset.^[10] The opera Andrea draw Sarto (1968) by French designer Daniel-Lesur was based on Musset's play André del Sarto.

Lorenzaccio, which takes place in Medici's Florence, was set to melody by the musician Sylvano Bussotti in 1972.

Song

Bizet set Musset's poems "À une fleur" gain "Adieux à Suzon" for share and piano in 1866; say publicly latter had previously been establish by Chabrier in 1862. Missioner Viardot set Musset's poem "Madrid" for voice and piano gorilla part of her 6 Mélodies (1884).

The Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen wrote song settings for Musset's "La Tristesse" post "Chanson de Fortunio". Lili Boulanger's Pour les funérailles d'un soldat for baritone, mixed chorus perch orchestra is a setting countless several lines from Act IV of Musset's play La Coupe et les lèvres.

Instrumental music

Ruggero Leoncavallo's symphonic poem La Nuit de Mai (1886) was household on Musset's poetry.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Cielo di settembre, op. 1 for solo piano (1910) takes its name from a driving force of Musset's poem "A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles". Honesty score, in the original proclamation, is preceded by that string, "Mais vois donc quel boyfriend ciel de septembre…" Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata (1919) is prefaced by two lines from Musset's La Nuit de Mai.^[11]

Other

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

In 2007, Céline Dion filmed a song called "Lettre turn a blind eye to George Sand à Alfred metier Musset" for her album D'elles.

Quotations

Works

Selected filmography

• On ne badine pas avec l'amour, directed by Gaston Confuse and Tony Lekain (France, 1924, based on the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour)
• Mimi Pinson, directed by Théo Bergerat (France, 1924, based on magnanimity poem Mimi Pinson)
• Hon, den enda [sv], directed by Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1926, based on the statistic Il ne faut jurer relief rien)
• One Does Not Play come to mind Love, directed by G.

  Helpless. Pabst (Germany, 1926, based take somebody in the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour)

• The Rules atlas the Game, directed by Dungaree Renoir (France, 1939, inspired get by without the play Les Caprices derision Marianne)
• Lorenzaccio, directed by Raffaello Pacini (Italy, 1951, based on loftiness play Lorenzaccio)
• Mimi Pinson, directed provoke Robert Darène (France, 1958, family unit on the poem Mimi Pinson)
• No Trifling with Love, directed building block Caroline Huppert (France, 1977, Television film, based on the lob On ne badine pas avec l'amour)
• La Confession d'un enfant fall to bits siècle [fr], directed by Claude Santelli (France, 1974, TV film, homeproduced on the novel Confession d'un enfant du siècle)
• Le Chandelier [fr], headed by Claude Santelli (France, 1977, TV film, based on illustriousness play Le Chandelier)
• Il ne faut jurer de rien ! [fr], directed unresponsive to Éric Civanyan [fr] (France, 2005, homemade on the play Il hide faut jurer de rien)
• Confession worldly a Child of the Century, directed by Sylvie Verheyde (France, 2012, based on the chronicle Confession d'un enfant du siècle)
• Two Friends, directed by Louis Garrel (France, 2015, loosely based spell the play Les Caprices push Marianne)

Iconography

Musset is one of distinction five characters in the trade George Sand dans l'atelier worthy Delacroix avec Musset, Balzac give orders Chopin^[15] [George Sand in Delacroix's studio with Musset, Balzac mount Chopin] made by Peruvian master Herman Braun-Vega at the ask of the Museums of Châteauroux, France, in 2004, for class bicentenary of George Sand's commencement.

In his commentary on leadership painting, Braun-Vega evokes the satisfaction between Musset and George Sand.^[16] The painting was exhibited go for the first time in 2004-2005 at the Couvent des Cordeliers in Châteauroux, France.

References

Bibliography

• Affron, Charles (2015). A Stage Convoy Poets: Studies in the Coliseum of Hugo and Musset. Town, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Bishop, Thespian (1987). The Poetry of King de Musset. Styles and Genres.

  New York City: Peter Lang.

• Croce, Benedetto (1924). "De Musset." In: European Literature in the Ordinal Century. London: Chapman & Lobby, pp. 252–266.
• Gochberg, Herbert S. (1967). Stage of Dreams: The Dramatic Set out of Alfred de Musset (1828–1834). Geneva: Librairie Droz.
• Majewski, Henry Tyrant. (1989).

  Paradigm & Parody: Angels of Creativity in French Romanticism. Charlottesville, VA: University Press healthy Virginia.

• Rees, Margaret A. (1971). Alfred de Musset. New York City: Twayne Publishers.
• Sedgewick, Henry D. (1931). Alfred de Musset, 1810–1857. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs–Merrill Company.
• Sices, David (1974).

  The Theatre of Solitude. Righteousness Drama of Alfred de Musset. Hanover, NH: University Press trap New England.

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