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The book had an important influence upon other poets, mostly French, including Charles Baudelaire, through whom the importance of the work came to be recognized.The most famous tribute was the Suite, Gaspard de la Nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand, of three piano pieces by Maurice Ravel based on three items, namely 'Ondine', 'Scarbo' and 'Le Gibet'.
Gaspard de la nuit (subtitled Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand), M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements , each based on a poem or fantaisie from the collection Gaspard de la Nuit – Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot completed in 1836 by Aloysius Bertrand .
Cover of the first edition of Gaspard de la nuit “Gaspard de la Nuit” was finally published in November 1842. It sold 20 copies. However, this edition was full of mistakes due to an inaccurate copy of the manuscript. In 1925, Bertrand Guégan published a new edition from an original manuscript that corrected most of the mistakes.
At the time of the prose poem's establishment as a form, French poetry was dominated by the alexandrine, a strict and demanding form that poets starting with Maurice de Guérin (whose "Le Centaure" and "La Bacchante" remain arguably the most powerful prose poems ever written [according to whom?]) and Aloysius Bertrand (in Gaspard de la nuit ...
Indeed the Preface to the entire book of Fantaisies is actually signed 'Gaspard de la Nuit' as a personal name. ('(L'auteur) se contente de signer son oeuvre - Gaspard de la Nuit'). The whole phrase is both an idiomatic expression and a name, as Bertrand's introduction makes quite clear. In my humble opinion, therefore, the capital 'N' should ...
Gaspard and Lisa, a British–American–French animated television series; Gaspard the Fox, a real urban fox whose fictional story is told in a picture book by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew; Gaspard, Saint-Jean-du-Sud, Haiti, a village in the Sud department of Haiti; Gaspard de la nuit, piano suite (1908) by Maurice Ravel
The Valses nobles et sentimentales is a suite of waltzes composed by Maurice Ravel.The piano version was published in 1911, and an orchestral version was published in 1912. . The title was chosen in homage to Franz Schubert, who had released collections of waltzes in 1823 entitled Valses nobles and Valses sentimental
Le Spleen de Paris explores the idea of pleasure as a vehicle for expressing emotion. Many of the poems refer to sex or sin explicitly (i.e. "Double Bedroom," "A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair", "Temptations"); others use subtle language and imagery to evoke sensuality (i.e. "the Artist's Confiteor").