Famous librettists
author of the libretto (words) of an opera or a similar extended musical composition
260 people
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
– 1832
· Age 82
Deceased
Victor Hugo
1802
– 1885
· Age 83
Deceased
Hans Christian Andersen
1805
– 1875
· Age 70
Deceased
Rabindranath Tagore
1861
– 1941
· Age 80
Deceased
Alexander Pushkin
1799
– 1837
· Age 37
Deceased
Franz Kafka
1883
– 1924
· Age 40
Deceased
Oscar Wilde
1854
– 1900
· Age 46
Deceased
Lord Byron
1788
– 1824
· Age 36
Deceased
James Joyce
1882
– 1941
· Age 58
Deceased
Richard Wagner
1813
– 1883
· Age 69
Deceased
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892
– 1973
· Age 81
Deceased
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840
– 1893
· Age 53
Deceased
Friedrich Schiller
1759
– 1805
· Age 45
Deceased
Henrik Ibsen
1828
– 1906
· Age 78
Deceased
Heinrich Heine
1797
– 1856
· Age 58
Deceased
Émile Zola
1840
– 1902
· Age 62
Deceased
William Blake
1757
– 1827
· Age 69
Deceased
Igor Stravinsky
1882
– 1971
· Age 88
Deceased
Hermann Hesse
1877
– 1962
· Age 85
Deceased
Bertolt Brecht
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
– 1822
· Age 29
Deceased
Günter Grass
1927
– 2015
· Age 87
Deceased
David Bowie
1947
– 2016
· Age 69
Deceased
George Sand
1804
– 1876
· Age 71
Deceased
Hector Berlioz
1803
– 1869
· Age 65
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q8178443