Tschudi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore, baron de
(1734–1784)> LIBRETTIST
Tschudi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore, baron de (15 August 1734, Metz; 7 March 1784, Paris), librettist, held public office in his native city, where his family had lived for 150 years. His principal interests were horticulture and poetry, and he did some articles in the field of botany for Denis Diderot’s L’Encyclopédie besides writing a treatise on conifers (1768) and La Nature sauvage et la nature cultivée (1777). His modest contribution to the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music…