Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot lunaire', ("three times seven poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"), commonly known as Pierrot Lunaire ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the moonlight"), Op. 21, is a song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg. It is a setting of twenty-one selected poems from Otto Erich Hartleben's German translation of Albert Giraud's cycle of French poems of the same name. The work's premiere was at the Berlin Choralion-saal on October 16 1912, with Albertine Zehme as the vocalist. The soprano soloist sings the poems in the Sprechstimme style, which complements the mood of the poems aurally. The work is atonal, but not twelve-tone as Schoenberg did not begin experimenting with twelve-tone music until later in his career. History The work originated in a commission by Zehme for a cycle for voice and piano, setting a series of poems by the Belgian w

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