Louis Anseaume

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

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'' (), 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

He was one of the founders of the French opéra comique genre. Provided by Wikipedia