Gustave Vaëz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustave Vaëz

Composer and piano maker

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1812

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 12-Mar-1862

Profession: translator, librettist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat