librettist

noun

librettist

noun

Etymology From libretto + -ist.

1

The person who writes a libretto.

It was secondhand‹make that fourth- or fifthhand. This was from an era before any kind of copyright, when librettists were almost expected to steal from other works.2002 January 3, Richard Traubner, “Mozart's Singspiel”, in Playbill:

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