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English translation: librettist and poet

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French term or phrase:	librettiste-poète
English translation:	librettist and poet
Entered by:	Ega

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10:55 Aug 27, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music

French term or phrase: librettiste-poète

taken from the following sentence (part of music press review): "(...)c'est la librettiste poète qui a rencontré son compositeur-interprète pour un rêve partagé... "

Ega KudoZ activity Questions: 190 (5 open) Answers: 0
Local time: 16:26

librettist and poet

Explanation:
or librettist-poet

Selected response from:

Hilary Wilson
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:26

Grading comment

merci Hilary!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +7

librettist and poet

Hilary Wilson

4 +1

poet-librettist

kashew

lyric writer and poet

Estelle Demontrond-Box

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

librettist and poet

Explanation:
or librettist-poet

Hilary Wilson
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:26
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

merci Hilary!

3 mins confidence:

lyric writer and poet

Explanation:
librettiste = auteur de livret = parolier

Estelle Demontrond-Box
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:26
Native speaker of:

French

1 day1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

poet-librettist

Explanation:
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2009-08-28 12:54:23 GMT)
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poet-playwright?

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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2009-08-28 13:02:04 GMT)
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If your man writes plays (pièces de théâtre) I assume there is no singing of the poet-playwrite's words as in a musical, just a musical background composed by this pianist: then I go for poet-playwright.

kashew
France
Local time: 16:26
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

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PRO / non-PRO

Non-PRO (2): writeaway, Jim Tucker

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