Louis Anseaume
Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784) was a French playwright and librettist from Paris. He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor. He is credited with developing the genre of comédie mêlée d'ariettes (comedy mixed with ariettes), a type of opéra comique.
Louis Anseaume
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- 1721 · Paris.
- Died
- 1784 · rue Bergère.
- Nationality
- France
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- actor · librettist · writer · playwright · general music director
- Languages
- French
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Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784) was a French playwright and librettist from Paris. He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor. He is credited with developing the genre of comédie mêlée d'ariettes (comedy mixed with ariettes), a type of opéra comique.
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Born at Paris in 1721, died at rue Bergère in 1784.
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