Blaze, François-Joseph
(1784–1857)> WRITER
Blaze, François-Joseph , DIT Castil-Blaze or Castil-Blaze père (1 December 1784, Cavaillon; 11 December 1857, Paris), writer, studied law before entering the Conservatoire. He continued to use his legal training as a government inspector in Vaucluse until he decided to go to Paris to promote his French version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ’s Don Juan and to find a publisher for his De l’opéra en France (see eighteenth-century volume for Mozart). The latter work appeared in 1820 and was…