Louis Anseaume

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Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784 in Paris) was a French playwright and librettist.

He contributed the words for operas by

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
. A prompter and
Duni
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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), .

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