Tristan Klingsor - biography, career, poetry
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Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Paris, August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic association with the composer Maurice 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 his gay orientation. His first collection, Filles-fleurs (1895), was in eleven-syllable verse. After this he often used a personal form of free verse. He was a member of the of the Fantaisiste group of French poets. Certain of his poems were set to music by composers including Charles Koechlin, Georges Hüe and Georges Migot, and he is best remembered as providing the texts for Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade (1905). He and Ravel belonged to the Paris avant-garde artistic group known as Les Apaches for whose meetings he was sometimes the host. He recorded his long acquaintance with the composer in an essay, "L’Époque Ravel".
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 and Pierre 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, 1974
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