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The Frenchman Charles Gounod composed the music to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.

Side Note: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote the original play "Faust." Charles Gounod composed the Opera.

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Elizabethan playwright, Christoher Marlowe; Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death (1604) .

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote the original play "Faust." (1808)

Charles Gounod composed the opera (1859).

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Charles Gounod, but Hector Berlioz also wrote one called 'The Damnation of Faust'.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the play Faust. Christopher Marlowe wrote the play Doctor Faustus, which is based on the same story, only he wrote it 200 years earlier.

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