Théophile Gautier

Life

Born: 30 August 1811

Died: 23 October 1872

Biography

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic.

While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert and Oscar Wilde.

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Settings of text by Théophile Gautier

• Chanson du pêcheur (Lamento), Op. 4, No. 1 (Gabriel Fauré)
• La dernière feuille, Op. 2, No. 4 (Ernest Chausson)
• Lamento (Henri Duparc)
• Les matelots, Op. 2, No. 2 (Gabriel Fauré)
• Tristesse, Op. 6, No. 2 (Gabriel Fauré)
• Villanelle, H 82 (Hector Berlioz)

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