Famous librettists
author of the libretto (words) of an opera or a similar extended musical composition
908 people
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862
– 1949
· Age 86
Deceased
Adam Mickiewicz
1798
– 1855
· Age 56
Deceased
Toni Morrison
1931
– 2019
· Age 88
Deceased
Elfriede Jelinek
1946
· Age 79
Alive
Frederick II of Prussia
1712
– 1786
· Age 74
Deceased
Jean Cocteau
1889
– 1963
· Age 74
Deceased
Paul Verlaine
1844
– 1896
· Age 51
Deceased
Jean Racine
1639
– 1699
· Age 59
Deceased
Mikhail Bulgakov
1891
– 1940
· Age 48
Deceased
J. M. Coetzee
1940
· Age 86
Alive
Gabriele D'Annunzio
1863
– 1938
· Age 74
Deceased
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906
– 1975
· Age 68
Deceased
J. M. Barrie
1860
– 1937
· Age 77
Deceased
Friedrich Hölderlin
1770
– 1843
· Age 73
Deceased
Olga Tokarczuk
1962
· Age 64
Alive
W. H. Auden
1907
– 1973
· Age 66
Deceased
Carlo Goldoni
1707
– 1794
· Age 86
Deceased
Paul Valéry
1871
– 1945
· Age 73
Deceased
Sergei Prokofiev
1891
– 1953
· Age 61
Deceased
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844
– 1908
· Age 64
Deceased
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
1775
– 1854
· Age 79
Deceased
Richard Strauss
1864
– 1949
· Age 85
Deceased
Théophile Gautier
1811
– 1872
· Age 61
Deceased
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
1839
– 1881
· Age 42
Deceased
Joseph Addison
1672
– 1719
· Age 47
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q8178443