Vaëz, Jean-Nicolas-Gustave van Nieuwenhuysen

Vaëz, Jean-Nicolas-Gustave van Nieuwenhuysen DIT (6 December 1812, Brussels; 12 March 1862, Paris), librettist, was about to study law at age 18, when he decided to become a poet. He did a few reasonably successful plays for the theatres of his native city between 1829 and 1834 before going to Paris in the hope of making a name for himself by collaborating with Alphonse Royer. The co-authors’ first project was to create a French version of Domenico Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor that…