Pitra, Louis-Guillaume

Pitra, Louis-Guillaume (1735 ?; ?), librettist, was a Paris merchant who became president of the provisory committee of police in the French capital between 1789 and 1791. Nothing else is known about him except that he wrote three librettos for the Opéra. He contributed the poem of Andromaque to the Royal Academy of Music in 1780, and his Daphné et Apollon was performed on the same stage in the fragments of 24 September 1782. Niccolò Piccinni had done the score of his Clytemnestre, but the…