A report on Jules Massenet
French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
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Charles Gounod
11 linksFrench composer.
French composer.
In his music there is a strand of romantic sentiment that is continued in the operas of Jules Massenet and others; there is also a strand of classical restraint and elegance that influenced Gabriel Fauré.
Manon
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Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.
Massenet Festival
11 linksMassenet Festival (Festival Massenet) is a biennale festival of music by French composer, Jules Massenet held in Saint-Étienne, France, close to the area where the composer was born.
Claude Debussy
8 linksFrench composer.
French composer.
Although Debussy's works showed the influence of Jules Massenet, the latter concluded, "He is an enigma".
Gabriel Fauré
9 linksFrench composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
Other members included Georges Bizet, Emmanuel Chabrier, Vincent d'Indy, Henri Duparc, César Franck, Édouard Lalo and Jules Massenet.
Ambroise Thomas
6 linksFrench composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868).
French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868).
Over these years his students included the composers Jules Massenet, Gaston Serpette, and, late in Thomas' career, George Enescu; future academics included Théodore Dubois and Charles Lenepveu; and conductors who were Thomas' students included Edouard Colonne and Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht.
Hérodiade
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Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert.
Daniel Auber
7 linksFrench composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
Ernest Guiraud, Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet.
Esclarmonde
6 linksEsclarmonde is an opéra (opéra romanesque) in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont.
Camille Saint-Saëns
7 linksFrench composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
The Société Nationale de Musique, with its motto, "Ars Gallica", had been established in February 1871, with Bussine as president, Saint-Saëns as vice-president and Henri Duparc, Fauré, Franck and Jules Massenet among its founder-members.