Guy, Jean-Henry

Guy, Jean-Henry (30 August 1765, Compiègne; 1835, ?), librettist, wrote the poems for Grétry’s Anacréon chez Polycrate, of 1797 and this same composer’s Delphis et Mopsa produced at the Opéra in 1803. He also provided the librettos for Reicha’s Natalie of 1816 and Henri-Montan Berton’s Roger de Sicile of 1817, but only the first of these four works enjoyed any measure of success, and Guy has been almost entirely forgotten by historians of the opera (see nineteenth-century volume for Reicha…