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Jules Barbier
music_department, soundtrack, writer
- Born:
- 1825-03-08, Paris, France
- Died:
- 1901-01-16, Paris, France
- Professions:
- music_department, soundtrack, writer
Biography
Paris welcomed Jules Barbier on 8 March 1825, and the city never really let him go. A librettist and dramatist who spun words the way a jeweler cuts stones, he supplied the verses that gave wings to Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann,” and, more than a century after his death on 16 January 1901, his name still flickers across end-credits—credited posthumously on Life Is Beautiful (1997), Jojo Rabbit (2019) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
