Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Italian Comedians (probably 1720) has Pierrot, dressed in white, at its centre. An earlier work by Watteau, The Departure of the Italian Comedians, describes the ...

Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," an unforgettable atonal song cycle that premiered in October 1912, shattered conventions about how composers treat the human voice. The 21st Century Consort ...