Famous librettists
author of the libretto (words) of an opera or a similar extended musical composition
481 people
Marinus van der Lubbe
1909
– 1934
· Age 24
Deceased
Georg Kaiser
1878
– 1945
· Age 66
Deceased
Casimir Delavigne
1793
– 1843
· Age 50
Deceased
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Alfred Andersch
1914
– 1980
· Age 66
Deceased
Emanuel Schikaneder
1751
– 1812
· Age 61
Deceased
Jean-Georges Noverre
1727
– 1810
· Age 83
Deceased
Friederike Mayröcker
1924
– 2021
· Age 96
Deceased
Peter Maxwell Davies
1934
– 2016
· Age 81
Deceased
Oscar Hammerstein II
1895
– 1960
· Age 65
Deceased
Ninette de Valois
1898
– 2001
· Age 102
Deceased
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
1724
– 1780
· Age 55
Deceased
Giuseppe Giacosa
1847
– 1906
· Age 58
Deceased
Alexander Sumarokov
1717
– 1777
· Age 59
Deceased
Giuseppe Parini
1729
– 1799
· Age 70
Deceased
Béla Balázs
1884
– 1949
· Age 64
Deceased
Felice Romani
1788
– 1865
· Age 76
Deceased
Christopher Hampton
1946
· Age 80
Alive
György Kurtág
1926
· Age 100
Alive
Henri Auguste Barbier
1805
– 1882
· Age 76
Deceased
Philippe Quinault
1635
– 1688
· Age 53
Deceased
Charles Paul de Kock
1793
– 1871
· Age 78
Deceased
Clemens Krauss
1893
– 1954
· Age 61
Deceased
Siegfried Wagner
1869
– 1930
· Age 61
Deceased
Thomas Corneille
1625
– 1709
· Age 84
Deceased
Catulle Mendès
1840
– 1909
· Age 68
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q8178443