Louis Anseaume

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

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. A prompter and répétiteur at Comédie Italienne, he was deputy director of the Opéra-Comique and wrote some forty plays, often in collaboration with Charles-Simon Favart, 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 *''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'' (1769), music by Grétry

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by Duni, Egidio 1709-1775
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by Duni, Egidio 1709-1775
Published 1770
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Published 1780
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