List of composers and their preferred lyricists

Most (classical) composers had one or a few lyricists with whom they preferred to work:


 * Bach: Picander
 * Mozart: Da Ponte, Schikaneder
 * Sullivan: Gilbert
 * Giuseppe Verdi: Arrigo Boito in his later works
 * Isaac Albéniz: Francis Burdett Money-Coutts
 * Richard Strauss: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
 * Puccini: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
 * Satie: Contamine, Plato (when composing Socrate: Platon s'avère comme un collaborateur parfait, très doux, jamais importun - "Plato shows himself a perfect coworker, very soft, never out of line")
 * Amadeo Vives: Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández Shaw
 * Rodgers: Hammerstein
 * Gershwin: Ira Gershwin
 * Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tim Rice, followed by Don Black
 * Bertold Hummel: Hermann Hesse
 * Handel: Charles Jennens

Composers that preferred to write their own libretti

 * Richard Wagner
 * Arrigo Boito
 * Modest Mussorgsky
 * Leoš Janáček
 * Olivier Messiaen
 * Cole Porter
 * Gian Carlo Menotti
 * Irving Berlin
 * Stephen Sondheim
 * Michael Tippett