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		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)

	jules massenet's life
		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 (3040 words)

	Jules Massenet: Biography - Classic Cat
		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.
	www.classiccat.net /massenet_j/biography.htm (454 words)

	Massenet, Jules Frederic - Musical Biographies
		Massenet produced his first opera, "La Grand Tante," in 1867, but his first lyrical drama to go outside of France was his "Herodiade," an opera of "biblical names, Oriental scenery, and French romance," treating of the wife of Herod, and of Salome of biblical lore.
		Massenet never had to resort to a piano to perfect his music, and most of the opera was written on the veranda looking out toward the sea, with Massenet's pet cat lying on the table by him.
		Massenet wrote too quickly to produce an unbroken series of masterpieces, although there is hardly an opera of his "Thaïs" is musically one of the thinnest of them all which does not contain at least an air or a scene which shows true creative talent.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_293.shtml (3844 words)

	Massenet Discography and Songs at CD Universe
		Massenet: Manon / Rudel, Sills, Gedda, New Philharmonia
		Granados / Massenet / Mozart / Puccini / Wagner
		Karajan / Lalo / Massenet / Mutter / Sarasate
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Massenet/a/Massenet.htm (797 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)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Massenet,
		, 1863-1937, French organist, conductor, and composer; pupil of Massenet and César Franck.
		In 1896 he succeeded Massenet as professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, and was its director from 1905 to 1920.
		NATALIE Massenet on why her online fashion store is such a runaway success.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Massenet,&StartAt=1 (822 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/main.html (208 words)

	NPR : Jules Massenet's 'Manon'
		Massenet wasn't the first to make an opera from the story of Manon, and he wasn't the last.
		Massenet breaks the somber mood again by introducing a lively ballet, which Guillot has arranged especially to impress Manon.
		Mixing sensuality and piety was one of Massenet's specialties, and the next scene, in which the two former lovers meet at the church, is especially moving and passionate.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=9325642 (1620 words)

	The Musical Times: Jules Massenet 1842-1912
		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)

	Amazon.ca: Herodiade Comp: Music: Jules Massenet,Jean-Philippe Courtis,Nadine Denize,Jean-Paul Fouchecourt,Thomas ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also, one must ask whether a second-tier Massenet opera (which means it's a tad innocuous) is deserving of all the respect that this recording gives.
		In France, Massenet was the most successful operatic composer and it has been decades since his death in 1912 that his operas were performed with regularities.
		Massenet and Librettists Paul Milliet and Henri Gremont handle this human nature-like predicament effectively, with bold honesty and with nothing to lose.
	www.amazon.ca /Herodiade-Comp-Jules-Massenet/dp/B000002RV1 (858 words)

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