List of composers and their preferred lyricists
- List of composers and their preferred lyricists
Most (classical) composers had one or a few lyricists with whom they preferred to work:
*Bach: Picander
*Mozart: Da Ponte, Schikaneder
*Sullivan: Gilbert
*Giuseppe Verdi: Arrigo Boito in his later works
*Isaac Albéniz: Francis Burdett Money-Coutts
*Richard Strauss: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
*Puccini: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
*Satie: Contamine, Plato (when composing "Socrate": "Platon s'avère comme un collaborateur parfait, très doux, jamais importun" - "Plato shows himself a perfect coworker, very soft, never out of line")
*Amadeo Vives: Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández Shaw
*Rodgers: Hammerstein
*Gershwin: Ira Gershwin
*Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tim Rice, followed by Don Black
*Bertold Hummel: Hermann Hesse
*Handel: Charles Jennings
Composers that preferred to write their own libretti
*Richard Wagner
*Arrigo Boito
*Modest Mussorgsky
*Leoš Janáček
*Olivier Messiaen
*Cole Porter
*Gian Carlo Menotti
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