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Louis Gallet (1835–1898) |
Louis Gallet
French writer and librettist (b. 14 February 1835 in Valence; d. 16 October 1898 in Paris), born Louis Marie Alexandre Gallet.
Gallet began by writing in his spare time, while supporting himself as a teacher in Valence. He moved to Paris in 1857, where he took up a civil service post in the Department of Public Assistance, and published treatises on hospital administration. In 1871 he was asked to collaborate with the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns on an operatic libretto (La Princesse jaune), which was a modest success, and Saint-Saëns recommended him as music critic for the Nouvelle Revue. He went on to produce librettos for Edouard Blau, Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet, amongst others.
In 1888 Gallet, along with Léonce Détroyat, approached Tchaikovsky with librettos for a number of possible subjects to be performed at the Paris Opéra, of which La Courtisane (based on a ballad by Goethe) appealed most to the composer. However, this project ultimately came to nothing.
Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Louis Gallet:
- 2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Louis Gallet have survived, dating from 1891 and 1892.
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