Name Louis Cahusac | Role Playwright | |
Died June 22, 1759, Paris, France Libretti Zoroastre, Zais, Les fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Les Boreades, La naissance d'Osiris, Nais, Les fetes de Polymnie | ||
J.-Ph. Rameau: «Zéphyre» [Choeur des Arts Florissants / Capella Coloniensis des WDR]
Louis de Cahusac (Montauban, 6 April 1706 – Paris, 22 June 1759) was a French playwright and librettist, and Freemason, most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zais (1748), Nais (1749), Zoroastre (1749; revised 1756), La naissance d'Osiris (1754), and Anacreon (the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754). He is also credited with writing the libretto of Rameau's final work, Les Boreades (c. 1763). Cahusac contributed to the Encyclopedie and was the lover of Marie Fel.
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