Germain Delavigne
Germain Delavigne (* 1. February 1790 n Giverny , † 3. November 1868 in Montmorency ), was a French poet , librettist and songwriter .
Germain Delavigne, brother of the famous lyric poet and playwright Casimir Delavigne , has made a name for himself as the author of vaudeville and opera texts . Along with Eugène Scribe he supplied the librettos for Muette de Portici , the snow and Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable and Huguenots .
Web links
- Literature by and about Germain Delavigne in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our time: German review of the present . In: August Kurtzel, Rudolf Gottschall , Friedrich Bienemann (Eds.): Monthly for the Conversationslexikon . tape 5 , no. 1 . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869, p. 312 ( in Google Books [accessed June 12, 2010]).
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| SURNAME | Delavigne, Germain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1790 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1868 |
| Place of death | Montmorency |