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
- Giuseppe Verdi: Arrigo Boito in his later works
- Isaac Albéniz: Francis Burdett Money-Coutts
- Richard Strauss: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- 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")
- Amadeo Vives: Federico Romero y Guillermo Fernández Shaw
- Rodgers: Hammerstein
- Gershwin: Ira Gershwin
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tim Rice, followed by Don Black
- Bertold Hummel: Hermann Hesse
[edit] Composers that preferred to write their own libretti
- Richard Wagner
- Arrigo Boito
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Leoš Janáček
- Olivier Messiaen
- Cole Porter
- Gian Carlo Menotti
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