Pierrot (disambiguation) — Pierrot is a stock character in pantomime.Pierrot may also refer to: *A nickname of the French name Pierre * Pierrot (poem), a poem by Langston Hughes *Pierrot (band), a Japanese rock band *Studio Pierrot, a Japanese production studio *Pierrot… … Wikipedia
Pierrot — is a stock character of mime and Commedia dell Arte , a French variant of the Italian Pedrolino. His character is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who inevitably breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin. He is usually… … Wikipedia
Pierrot Lunaire — This article is about the Schoenberg composition. For the cycle of poems by Albert Giraud, see Pierrot lunaire (book). For the Italian band, see Pierrot Lunaire (band). Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire ( Three times… … Wikipedia
Nikolai Roslavets — Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets (Russian: Николай Андреевич Рославец) (4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December 1880], Surazh,[1] then in Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire, now in Bryansk Oblast, Russia – 23 August 1944, Moscow) was a significant… … Wikipedia
List of cats — This is a list of specific natural cats. For fictional cats refer to List of fictional cats . Cats famous in their own right *All Ball, the first cat of Koko the gorilla. *Amber, one of two cats in the title role of the movie The Cat from Outer… … Wikipedia
Granville Bantock — Sir Granville Bantock (7 August 1868 ndash; 16 October 1946), was a British composer of classical music.Bantock was born in London. He was intended by his parents (his father was a Scottish doctor)Keith Anderton, slevenotes, Hebridean Symphony,… … Wikipedia
Paul Legrand — Nadar: Paul Legrand as Pierrot, c. 1857. Musée d Orsay, Paris Paul Legrand (1816–1898), born Charles Dominique Martin Legrand, was a highly regarded and influential French mime who turned the Pierrot of his predecessor, Jean Gaspard Deburau, into … Wikipedia
Arnold Schoenberg — ( [ˈaːrnɔlt ˈʃøːnbɛrk] ) (13 September 1874 ndash; 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling… … Wikipedia
List of artworks known in English by a foreign title — The following is an alphabetical list of works of art that are often called by a non English name in an English context. (Of course, many such titles are simply the names of people: Don Quixote, Irma la Douce, Madame Bovary, Tosca, Pelléas et… … Wikipedia
Debussy, Claude — ▪ French composer Introduction in full Achille Claude Debussy born Aug. 22, 1862, Saint Germain en Laye, France died March 25, 1918, Paris French composer whose works have been a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. He developed a… … Universalium