Louis Gallet

Louis Gallet ( born February 14, 1835 in Valence, † October 16th 1898 in Paris) was a French librettist and writer.

Life and work

Gallet worked in his hometown, first as a teacher and proofreader. In 1857 he published under a pseudonym, the collection of poems Gioventù and moved to Paris. Here he worked in the health administration, headed a long time the Hôpital Lariboisière and eventually attained the rank of inspector.

He also wrote novels, poetry and drama. 1868 began his career as a librettist. Together with Édouard Blau, he wrote the words to Georges Bizet's opera La Coupe du Roi de Thulé. 1870 followed the libretto for Le Kobold by Ernest Guiraud. In 1871, he met Camille Saint- Saëns, who commissioned him with the libretto of La Princesse jaune, and gave him as a music critic at the Nouvelle Revue.

In the aftermath Gallet wrote more libretti for Saint- Saëns, for Charles Gounod, Eugene Diaz, Victorin de Joncieres and Lucien -Léon Guillaume Lambert. Several libretti he wrote for Jules Massenet, including an adaptation of Le Cid (1885 ) by Pierre Corneille and after the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. In the 1890s he published two autobiographical volumes.

In the novel Le Capitaine Satan ( German: Captain Satan or Adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac), he had the famous French poet of the 17th century play in a cloak -and-dagger story the main role. Around the same time (1897 ) was published by Edmond Rostand, the literary far more sophisticated romantic - comedy verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac.

Works (selection)

  • Notes d'un librettiste, memories, 1891
  • Guerre et commune, impressions d'un hospitalier, memories, 1898
  • La Coupe du Roi de Thulé, (Georges Bizet ), 1868
  • Le Puck with Charles Nuitter ( Ernest Guiraud ), 1870
  • Djamileh, (Georges Bizet ), 1872
  • La Princesse jaune, ( Camille Saint- Saëns ), 1872
  • La Coupe du roi de Thulé with Édouard Blau, (Eugène Diaz ), 1873
  • Marie- Magdeleine, oratorio, ( Jules Massenet ), 1873
  • Cinq- Mars with Paul Poirson (Charles Gounod ), 1877
  • Eve ( Jules Massenet ), 1875
  • Le Roi de Lahore ( Jules Massenet ), 1877
  • Le Cid by Édouard Blau and Adolphe Dennery ( Jules Massenet ), 1885
  • Thaïs ( Massenet Kules ), 1894
  • Le Déluge, biblical Poem ( Camille Saint- Saëns ), 1876
  • Ascanio, after Benvenuto Cellini by Paul Meurice, ( Camille Saint- Saëns ), 1890
  • Déjanire ( Camille Saint- Saëns ), 1898
  • Gioventù, poems, 1857
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