How to Pronounce Gustave Vaëz
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Dec 06, 1812 Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium Died on 12 Mar 1862 (aged 49)
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About Gustave Vaëz
- Jean-Nicolas-Gustave Van Nieuwen-Huysen (known as Gustave Vaëz) (6 December 1812 – 12 March 1862) was a Belgian playwright, librettist and translator of opera librettos.
- Born in Brussels, he studied law and earned a doctorate at the State University of Leuven.
- Since he had no desire to work as a lawyer, he devoted himself to a career as a playwright.
- He published a large number of plays.
- His first plays were staged from 1829 to 1834 in Brussels, which he left for Paris to work with librettist Alphonse Royer.
- Operas where Vaëz was involved as a librettist and translator are Lucia di Lammermoor (1839), La favorite and Rita, ou Le mari battu by Gaetano Donizetti (1840), and Jérusalem by Giuseppe Verdi.
- He died in Paris on 12 March 1862.
