arch-poet, bucoliast, elegist, gagman, joke writer, melodizer, musicographer, play fixer, satirist, song writer, trouveur
Definitionn. author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
Last update: September 23, 2015
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But so long as we treat Wagner like a prose philosopher, a librettist, a poet, a mere musician, or anything short of the complex and many-sided artist he really is, we shall find insuperable obstacles to understanding or enjoying his works. [Please select]
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Gilbert (1837-1911), an English dramatist, is known to us as the librettist of the popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas, _The Mikado_, _Pinafore_, etc. [Please select]
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