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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar Hammerstein II | Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II | 1895 | 1960 | American | lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in the musical theater for almost 40 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II |
| Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal | 1874 | 1929 | Austrian | novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal |
| Dorothy Fields | Dorothy Fields | 1904 | 1974 | American | librettist and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fields |
| Michael Nyman | Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE | 1944 | n/a | English | composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nyman |
| Alan Jay Lerner | Alan Jay Lerner | 1918 | 1986 | American | lyricist and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jay_Lerner |
| Yip Harburg | Edgar Yipsel Harburg | 1896 | 1981 | American | popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg |
| Moss Hart | Moss Hart | 1904 | 1961 | American | playwright, librettist, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Hart |
| Marc Blitzstein | Marcus Samuel Blitzstein | 1905 | 1964 | American | composer, lyricist, and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blitzstein |
| Alain Boublil | Alain Boublil | 1941 | n/a | French | musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Boublil |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 1749 | 1838 | null | Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte |
| Jack Larson | Jack Edward Larson | 1928 | 2015 | American | actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer best known for his portrayal of photographer/cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the television series Adventures of Superman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Larson |
| Herbert Fields | Herbert Fields | 1897 | 1958 | American | librettist and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fields |
| Paul Rubens (composer) | Paul Alfred Rubens | 1875 | 1917 | English | songwriter and librettist who wrote some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies of the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rubens_(composer) |
| Arthur Jacobs | Arthur David Jacobs | 1922 | 1996 | English | musicologist, music critic, teacher, librettist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jacobs |
| Fritz Löhner-Beda | Fritz Löhner-Beda | 1883 | 1942 | Austrian | librettist, lyricist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Löhner-Beda |
| Jerome Chodorov | Jerome Chodorov | 1911 | 2004 | American | playwright, librettist, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Chodorov |
| David Hein | David Hein | null | null | Canadian | librettist, composer-lyricist, musician, and actor best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Come from Away with his writing partner and wife, Irene Sankoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hein |
| Chester Kallman | Chester Simon Kallman | 1921 | 1975 | American | poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Kallman |
| Alfred Grünwald (librettist) | Alfred Grünwald | 1884 | 1951 | Austrian | author, librettist, and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Grünwald_(librettist) |
| Gerald Freedman | Gerald Alan Freedman | 1927 | 2020 | American | theatre director, librettist, and lyricist, and a college dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Freedman |
| Julius Brammer | Julius Brammer | 1877 | 1943 | Austrian | librettist and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Brammer |
| Leo Stein (writer) | Leo Stein | 1861 | 1921 | null | playwright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Stein_(writer) |
| Rudolf Bernauer | Rudolf Bernauer | 1880 | 1953 | Austrian | lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, film director, producer, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bernauer |
| Viktor Léon | Victor Léon | 1858 | n/a | null | well-known Austrian Jewish-Hungarian librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Léon |
| Alice Goodman | Alice Goodman | null | null | American | poet and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goodman |
| Hector-Jonathan Crémieux | Hector-Jonathan Crémieux | 1828 | 1893 | French | librettist and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector-Jonathan_Crémieux |
| Leonard Kastle | Leonard Gregory Kastle | 1929 | 2011 | American | opera composer, librettist, and director, although he is best known as the writer/director of the 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kastle |
| Marshall Barer | Marshall Barer | 1923 | 1998 | null | lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Barer |
| Leonard Liebling | Leonard Liebling | 1874 | 1945 | American | music critic, writer, librettist, editor, pianist, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Liebling |
| Bruno Granichstaedten | Bruno Bernhard Granichstaedten | 1879 | 1944 | Austrian | composer and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Granichstaedten |
| Walter Kaufmann (composer) | Walter Kaufmann | 1907 | 1984 | null | composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(composer) |
| Verna Arvey | Verna Arvey | 1910 | 1987 | American | librettist, pianist and writer who is best known for her musical collaborations with her husband William Grant Still, a musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verna_Arvey |
| Emanuel Schlechter | Emanuel Schlechter | 1904 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Schlechter |
| Herschel Garfein | Herschel Garfein | 1958 | n/a | American | composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script Analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Garfein |
| Itche Goldberg | Itche Goldberg | 1904 | 2006 | Polish | Yiddish language writer of children's books, poet, librettist, educator, literary critic, camp director, publisher, fundraiser, essayist, literary editor, Yiddish language and culture scholar, and left-wing political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itche_Goldberg |
| Irene Dische | Irene Dische | 1952 | n/a | American | author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience, alienation, and exile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Dische |
| Harry Steppe | Harry Steppe | null | null | Russian | Jewish-American actor, musical comedy performer, headliner comedian, writer, librettist, director and producer, who toured North America working in Vaudeville and Burlesque | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Steppe |
| Sydney Montagu Samuel | Sydney Montagu Samuel | 1848 | 1884 | English | journalist, librettist, financier, and communal worker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Montagu_Samuel |
| Ernst Lert | Ernst Joseph Maria Lert | 1883 | 1955 | Austrian | stage director, writer, composer, librettist, and music historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lert |
| Elkhanah Pulitzer | Elkhanah Pulitzer | null | null | American | stage director and librettist who primarily works in opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhanah_Pulitzer |
| Charles Zachary Barnett | Charles Zachary Barnett | 1813 | 1849 | English | librettist and playwright of Jewish descent notable for writing the libretti for two operas by his brother the composer John Barnett as well as for his early theatrical adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Zachary_Barnett |
| Leo Feld | Leo Feld | 1869 | 1924 | Austrian | librettist, dramaturge, stage director, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Feld |
| Eleanor Reissa | Eleanor Reissa | null | null | American | actress, singer, theatre director, playwright, librettist, choreographer, and translator based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Reissa |
| Ray Smolover | Itzchok Reev "Ray" Smolover | 1921 | 2015 | American | vocal pedagogist, voice teacher, tenor, opera librettist, opera director, and hazzan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Smolover |