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librettist
[ li-bret-ist ]
librettist
/ lɪˈbrɛtɪst /
noun
- the author of a libretto
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Word History and Origins
Origin of librettist1
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Example Sentences
Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.
Without applying to another librettist, he began to search for a ready-made text.
The librettist now having need of his services for the finale, Daland enters, and the act winds up with a showy trio.
There are the verses, exclaimed the librettist; I wrote them in an hour.
He proposed as a good subject, "Alexander and Roxane," and set a librettist to work at the adaptation of it.
In operatic work the librettist and composer must work hand in hand.
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