librettist

librettist
    n 1: author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
    

Librettist \Li*bret"tist\ (l[i^]*br[e^]t"t[i^]st), n.
   One who makes a libretto.
   [1913 Webster]
    

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "librettist":
      Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, arranger, ballad maker,
      balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bucoliast,
      choreographer, comedian, composer, contrapuntist, dramatist,
      dramatizer, dramaturge, elegist, epic poet, ethnomusicologist,
      farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, fili, gagman, harmonist,
      harmonizer, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, idyllist, imagist,
      joke writer, jokesmith, jongleur, laureate, madrigalist,
      major poet, maker, melodist, melodizer, melodramatist, mimographer,
      minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, monodramatist,
      musicographer, musicologist, occasional poet, odist, orchestrator,
      pastoral poet, pastoralist, play doctor, play fixer, playwright,
      playwriter, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist,
      satirist, scenario writer, scenarioist, scenarist, scop, scorer,
      scriptwriter, skald, song writer, songsmith, sonneteer, symbolist,
      symphonist, tone poet, tragedian, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore,
      tunesmith, vers libriste, vers-librist