Pierre Beaumarchais
In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed an opera, "Le Nozze di Figaro", based on "The Marriage of Figaro", with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the play. Several composers including Paisiello in 1782 wrote operas based on "The Barber of Seville". Rossini's 1816 version is his most successful work and still often performed. In 1966, Darius Milhaud composed an opera, "La mère coupable", based on "The Guilty Mother".
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
In later work, Giesecke translated the Italian libretti of Mozart's operas "Le nozze di Figaro" (1793) and "Così fan tutte" (1794) into German. In total he was to write libretti for more than fifteen operas by various composers between 1789 and 1800; see listing below.