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	Jules Massenet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Massenet was born in Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part of the city of Saint-Étienne, in the French département of the Loire.
		Massenet took a break from his composing to serve as a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War, but returned to his art following the end of the conflict in 1871.
		Massenet used Wagner's leitmotiv technique but gave it a Gallic lightness, a style considered by some, perhaps, to be a bit saccharine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massenet (398 words)

	jules massenet's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Massenet is not inspired by the libretto of Jean Richepin and uses fragments of previous works.
		Massenet is acclaimed and receives the Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Saint-Charles from Prince Albert I during the interval of the first performance.
		Celebration of the centenary of the birth of Berlioz, Massenet and Reyer representing the Institut de France.
	www.jules-massenet.com /a_bio.htm (2740 words)

	AZOpera Jules Massenet Biography
		Massenet's operas shared the opera vogue of nineteenth century France with Wagner's, their direct opposite.
		Massenet's twenty-five were of the Meyerbeer-Offenbach type, that is, light and popular, rather than "grand".
		Massenet wrote operas with one eye on the prima donna who was to sing them.
	www.evermore.com /azo/c_bios/massenet.php3 (230 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Jules Massenet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jules Massenet was born on March 12, 1842 in Montaud, France (southwest of Lyon).
		Massenet spent the first two years in Rome, where he met French compatriot and fellow musician Louise Constance de Gressy, whom he married when he moved back to Paris in 1866.
		Massenet shared with Verdi and Puccini the honor of being a financially successful opera composer, a rarity in any age.
	www.operaworld.com /special/masse1.shtml (1094 words)

	Jules Massenet biography - 8notes.com
		Massenet used Wagner's leitmotiv device but gave it French lightness, a style considered by some to be saccharine.
		Jules Massenet: Meditation From 'Thais' Composed by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), arranged by M. Marsick.
		Jules Massenet: Meditation From Thais Composed by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), edited by Roger Nichols.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/massenet.asp (373 words)

	Jules Massenet
		Enfant prodige, Jules Massenet entre au Conservatoire de Paris dès l'âge de onze ans.
		Jules Massenet gît dans le cimetière d'Égreville, petite commune des confins méridionaux de l'Île-de-France où il avait acheté un château à la fin de sa carrière.
		Le chur des Disciples de Massenet y a donné un concert en juillet 1997, durant sa dernière tournée en France et en Belgique.
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	Jules Massenet
		Massenet offers a personal imprint in employing and featuring figures, giving a lyric-dramatic slant combined with a refined orchestration.
		In the end, Massenet was an attentive reporter of his own time, since his memories were edited in 1912, "Mes souvenirs".
		On conclusion, Massenet was an outsider, a figure who pursued a simply music, free from grand effects, that comments on the most meaningful aspect of the bourgeois society where he lived and worked, becoming the reference of the literary and artistic world that mirrored him.
	www.cesil.com /1098/enbass10.htm (631 words)

	Don César de Bazan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don César de Bazan is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Ennery, Dumanoir and Chantepie, based on the drama Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo.
		It was the first full-length opera by Massenet to be professionally produced, the one-act La grand'tante having been produced five years earlier by the same company.
		Don César de Bazan was not a success and it would be another five years, with the premiere of Le roi de Lahore in 1877, before Massenet rose to his place among the greatest composers of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_C%C3%A9sar_de_Bazan (180 words)

	The Musical Times: Jules Massenet 1842-1912 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		y the death of Jules[1] Massenet, which occurred on August 14, France loses her most popular and, besides Dr. Saint-Saëns, most famous composer – a composer on whose actual merits, perhaps, exacting critics do not agree, but whose career may well be described as an almost uninterrupted series of successes.
		Jules Massenet was born, May 12, 1842, at Montaud, then a suburb of Saint-Etienne, the great manufacturing city of the centre of France – the youngest of twenty-one children.
		The chief idiosyncrasy of Massenet, as a man and as an artist, was an overwhelming desire to court success.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/191209massenet.html (1208 words)

	Jules Massenet
		Massenet was one of the best-respected French composers of his day, a member of the Academy and a professor of composition at the Conservatoire.
		In addition to his own music, he had a monumental impact on his contemporaries in France and, through his teaching, the generation that followed him.
		was restaged as an opera during Massenet's lifetime.
	opera.stanford.edu /Massenet (208 words)

	About the Composer
		Massenet was born in Montaud, France, May 12, 1842.
		Massenet was very influential on other French composers in France.
		Massenet died in Paris on August 13, 1912.
	www.morrisonfoundation.org /jules_Massenet_notes.htm (186 words)

	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Jules Massenet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of Massenet's 25 operas, two are still performed today: "Manon" (1884) and "Thais" (1894).
		In 1878 Massenet became the youngest person to be elected to France's Academie de Beaux Arts.
		A bust of Massenet was placed at the Opera Comique in 1934.
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	Massenet, Jules on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michigan Opera Theatre 1999 - 2000 Season at the Detroit Opera House Presents Andrea Bocelli's North American Opera Debut and Denyce Graves Michigan Opera Theatre Debut in 'Werther' by Jules Massenet, October 29 - November 14, 1999.
		Massenet: Esclarmonde Suite; Suite No. 1; Cendrillon Suite.
		Massenet: concierto para piano y orquesta.(TT: Massenet: Concert for Piano and Orchestra)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/massenet.asp (196 words)

	MASSENET, Jules :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He won a first prize for piano, and in 1863 he won the Prix de Rome, which took him to the Villa Medici.
		In Rome he met Liszt, through whom Massenet was to meet his future wife.
		His teacher, Ambroise Thomas, used his influence to obtain performances of Massenet's early work, and from then on there was no looking back - his success as an opera writer was unbroken until his death.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Classpedia/Massenet.htm (129 words)

	Jules Massenet Biography - famous Jules Massenet Classical collection and Jules Massenet Music Reviews.
		The leading operatic composer of his generation in France, Jules Massenet studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1863.
		He maintained a dominant position in French opera at least until the appearance of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, an innovative work that nevertheless shows something of the influence of Massenet.
		Of some three dozen stage works, Massenet's opera Manon is perhaps the best known, a version of the novel by the Abbé Prévost also used by Puccini.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=M&ComposerID=673 (430 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The leading operatic composer of his generation in France, Jules Massenet entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of eleven and in 1863 won the Prix de Rome for his cantata "David Rizzio".
		After spending three years at the Villa Medici in Rome, he returned to Paris and achieved initial success with his one-act opera "La Grand’ Tante", followed by "Don César de Bazan" and "Marie-Magdeleine" which attracted the attention of other musicians, including Bizet.
		He maintained a dominant position in French opera, at least until the appearance of Debussy 's "Pelléas et Mélisande" which shows something of Massenet’s influence.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/massenet.html (207 words)

	Manon - Jules Massenet
		If CV sounds somewhat flippant, it is because we have never found this libretto to be convincing or profound.
		When well sung, we, too, are perfectly willing to be seduced by the sensual pleasures of lovely music.
		For once, the supporting players were all up to the occasion, with the able assistance of Maestro Julius Rudel in the pit and intelligent stage direction by John Copley.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Manon.htm (413 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Jules Massenet
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		Massenet, Jules (Émile Frédéric) (b Montaud, St Étienne, 1842; d Paris, 1912).
		Massenet used Wagner's leitmotiv device, but translated it into his melodious and agreeable style, a style considered by some to be saccharine but which has won admiration in the later 20th cent.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/massenet.html (249 words)

	Jules Massenet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of an ironmaster, Massenet entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11, subsequently studying composition under the noted opera composer Ambroise Thomas.
		The leading French opera composer of his generation, Jules Massenet wrote music admired for its lyricism, sensuality, occasional sentimentality, and theatrical effectiveness.
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	Reviews - Jules Massenet - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
		Arias by W.A. Mozart, Gounod, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Bizet, Glinka, A. Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, & Rachmaninov
		Arias by Offenbach, Massenet, Gounod, Ravel, Chabrier, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Auber, & Thomas
		Arias by Mozart, Weber, Goetz, Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Charpentier, Smetana, & Dvorák
	www.classicstoday.com /digest/pdigest.asp?perfidx=1112 (568 words)

	Amazon.ca: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-3: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jules Massenet (Composer), Jean-Yves Ossonce (Conductor), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
		If you've had occasion to enjoy Massenet's operas, then you're sure to enjoy these delightful recordings as well.
		I wasn't familiar with Massenet until I heard a sample of this recording on NPR.
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	Jules Massenet - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Composed by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), edited by Roger Nichols.
		Ernest Chausson, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Pablo de Sarasate, Eugène Ysaye
		Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Umberto Giordano, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=massenet (468 words)

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		Massenet became one of the most prolific composers of his See also:
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	Alibris: Jules Massenet
		Massenet's classic work is now available to music and opera lovers in an attractive, inexpensive edition of the complete score, reproduced from an authoritative French edition.
		by Jules Massenet, Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille, abbé Prévost
		by Jules Massenet, Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet, Georges Hartmann
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		Amazon.com: Jules Massenet: Ballet Suites: Music: Jules Massenet,Neville Marriner,Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,Viola Section Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
		Massenet - Thaïs / Fleming, Hampson, Sabbatini, Shkosa, Vidal, Devellereau, Cals, Yves Abel ~ Jules Massenet
		Joshua Bell - Poème ~ Chausson · Massenet · Saint-Saëns · Ravel / RPO · Litton ~ Ernest Chausson
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	JULES MASSENET Autograph
		Four lines of lyrics (in French, not translated) are penned above his signature.
		In the year he penned this document, Massenet's Ariane was staged by the Paris Opéra.
		French composer Jules Massenet (1842-1912) made his name with the comic opera Don César de Bazan (1872).
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=85416 (220 words)

	Jules Massenet - Werther Movie: Jules Massenet - Werther DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jules Massenet - Werther Movie: Jules Massenet - Werther DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		A terrific cast, including Marcelo Alvarez, Elina Garanca, and Adrian Erod, helps to make this Vienna State Opera production of Jules Massenet's WERTHER truly memorable.
		With the exciting Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan enlivening the music, Andrei Serban's stage direction reveals new layers in the well-known love story.
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	JULES EMILE FREDERIC MASSENET - LoveToKnow Article on JULES EMILE FREDERIC MASSENET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JULES EMILE FREDERIC MASSENET - LoveToKnow Article on JULES EMILE FREDERIC MASSENET
		Massenet became one of the most prolific composers of his time.
		Massenet undoubtedly possesses a style of his own.
	www.1911ency.org /M/MA/MASSENET_JULES_EMILE_FREDERIC.htm (138 words)

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