List of composers and their preferred lyricists

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Most (classical) composers had one or a few lyricists with whom they preferred to work:

• Bach: Picander
• Mozart: Da Ponte, Schikaneder
• Sullivan: Gilbert
• Puccini: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
• Satie: Contamine, Plato (when composing Socrate: Platon s'avère comme un collaborateur parfait, très doux, jamais importun - "Plato shows himself a perfect coworker, very soft, never out of line")
• Rodgers: Hammerstein
• Gershwin: Ira Gershwin
• Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tim Rice, followed by Don Black

[edit] Composers that preferred to write their own libretti

• Richard Wagner
• Leoš Janáček
• Olivier Messiaen