Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

) was a French playwright and

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

. He contributed the words for operas by

André Ernest Modeste Grétry André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variat ...

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ( – ) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical gen ...

Egidio Romualdo Duni Egidio Romualdo Duni (or ''Egide Romuald Duny''; 11 February 1708 – 11 June 1775) was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas. Biography Born in Matera, Duni w ...

, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and

François-André Danican Philidor François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the ''opéra comique''. ...

. He is credited with developing the genre of '' comédie mêlée d'ariettes'' (''comedy mixed with ariettes''), a type of opéra comique. A prompter and

répétiteur A (from the French verb meaning 'to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearse') is an accompanist, tutor or coach of ballet dancers or opera singers. A feminine form, , also appears but is comparatively rare. Opera In opera, a is the perso ...

at Comédie Italienne, he was deputy director of the Opéra-Comique and wrote some forty plays, often in collaboration with

Charles-Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart (13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Biography Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, a ...

, including several opéras-comiques with Duni : *''Le Chinois poli en France'' (1754) *'' Le Peintre amoureux de son modèle'' (1757), music by Duni *'' La Fausse Esclave'' (1758), music by

Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he g ...

*''Cendrillon'' (1759), music by Laruette *''L'Île des fous'' (1760), music by Duni *''Mazet'' (1761), music by Duni *''Le Milicien'' (1762), music by Duni *'' Les Deux Chasseurs et la Laitière'' (1763), music by Duni *''La Clochette'' (1766), music by Duni *''

Le tableau parlant ''Le tableau parlant'' (''The Talking Picture'') is an opéra comique, described as a ''comédie-parade'', in one act by André Grétry, The French libretto was by Louis Anseaume. Performance history It was first performed on 20 September 1769 by ...

'' (1769), music by Grétry He was one of the founders of the French opéra comique genre.

Sources

*''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), .

External links

His plays and their presentations
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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists Writers from Paris 1721 births 1784 deaths {{Opera-bio-stub