# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustave-vaez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:13:21.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustave-vaez"
name: "Gustave Vaëz"
slug: "gustave-vaez"
description: "Jean-Nicolas-Gustave Van Nieuwen-Huysen was a Belgian playwright, librettist, translator of opera libretti., and opera director. He wrote many stage plays and opera libretti in collaboration with Alphonse Royer; including the libretti to Gaetano Donizetti's La favorite (1843) and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem (1847). Vaëz and Royer also translated several Italian-language operas by other writers into French. Vaëz also collaborated on opera libretti with the writers Eugène Scribe and Victorien Sardou."
tagline: "Composer and piano maker (1812–1862)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz_caricature_by_Nadar_-_Gallica_2013_(adjusted).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1812-12-06"
deathDate: "1862-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3157894736842105
  historical:           6.336861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A4_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "جوستاڤ ڤايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz"
    title: "Gustave Vaëz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz"
    title: "Gustave Vaëz"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz"
    title: "Gustave Vaëz"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%B7%2C_%D0%93%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Ваэз, Гюстав"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump