librettist

Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Without applying to another librettist, he began to search for a ready-made text.

The librettist now having need of his services for the finale, Daland enters, and the act winds up with a showy trio.

There are the verses, exclaimed the librettist; I wrote them in an hour.

He proposed as a good subject, "Alexander and Roxane," and set a librettist to work at the adaptation of it.

In operatic work the librettist and composer must work hand in hand.