 His best known work, the "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", was inspired by Mallarmé's poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".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.