Pierrot Lunaire
The symbolist aesthetic also influenced Aleksandr Scriabin's compositions. Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" takes its text from German translations of the symbolist poems by Albert Giraud, showing an association between German expressionism and symbolism. Richard Strauss's 1905 opera "Salomé", based on the play by Oscar Wilde, uses a subject frequently depicted by symbolist artists.