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MASSENET, JULES SMILE FREDERIC (1842– )

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MASSENET, JULES SMILE See also:FREDERIC (1842– ) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at Montaud, on the 12th of May 1842. He studied at the See also:Paris See also:Conservatoire, where he obtained the See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome in 1863 with the See also:cantata See also:David See also:Rizzio. Massenet became one of the most prolific composers of his See also:time. His operas include the following: La Grande tante, one See also:act, See also:opera comique (1867); See also:Don Cesar de Bazan, three acts, opera comique (1872); Le Roi de See also:Lahore, five acts, opera (1877); Herodiade, five acts (See also:Brussels, 1881); Manon, five acts, opera comique (1884); Le See also:Cid, four acts, opera (1885); Esdarmonde, four acts, opera comique (1889); Le Mage, five acts, opera (1891); Werther, four acts (See also:Vienna, 1892); See also:Thais, three acts, opera (1894); Le Portrait de Manon, one act, opera comique (1894); La Navarraise, two acts (Covent See also:Garden, 1894); Sapho, opera comique (1897); Cendrillon, opera comique (1900) ; Griselidis, opera comique (1901); Le Jongleur de Notre See also:Dame (See also:Mentone, 1902). Of these the most popular is Manon. Massenet's other See also:works include See also:Marie Madeleine, sacred See also:drama (1873); See also:Eve, a See also:mystery (1875); La See also:Vierge, sacred See also:legend (188o); six orchestral suites entitled Scenes hongroises, Scenes pittoresques, Scenes dramatiques, Scenes napolitaines, Scenes de feerie, Scenes alsaciennes; See also:music to the tragedy See also:Les Erynnies, to See also:Theodora, Le See also:Crocodile, L'See also:Hetman; a See also:requiem, Narcisse; an idyll, Biblis; a See also:Scene See also:antique; several sets of songs, entitled See also:Paine d'avril, Poeme d'amour, Paine d'hiver, Poeme d'octobre, Paine See also:pastoral, Poeme du souvenir; also a large number of detached songs. He was See also:professor of See also:composition at the Conservatoire from 1878 to 1896, among his pupils being Hillemacher, Marty, See also:Bruneau, Vidal, Pierne, See also:Leroux and See also:Charpentier. Massenet undoubtedly possesses a See also:style of his own. He is at his best in music descriptive of the See also:tender See also:passion, and many of the love scenes in his operas are very beautiful.

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