Joseph Weterings


Joseph Weterings was a Belgian writer, musicologist and music critic. Weterings wrote poetry, plays and libretti for ballets and operas.
He was also director of the energy company Electrogaz in Brussels until 1966.

Biography

His main interest as a literary author was the culture of antiquity. He worked with composers like Albert Roussel on his ballet Aeneas and an opera, Le Téméraire, or Karel Albert as well as Wladimir Vogel and.
Some of his works were illustrated by Belgian painter Edgard Tytgat.
Barely a year after his retirement from Electrogaz, he died at Seillans in the French department of Var, where he had taken up residence.

Awards and honours

He was made Knight of the Order of Leopold.

Works