Massenet composer biography dvd
So when Charlotte meets Werther, a strong and immediate feeling has born between them, and the way they deal with it leads them to pain and suffering until.
The video, less than an hour long, gives an outline of Massenet's life, information which may be had from any printed biography, but the interviews with various.!
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842–1912)
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Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French pronunciation:[ʒylemilfʁedeʁikmasnɛ];[n 1] 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music.
While still a schoolboy, Massenet was admitted to France's principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire.
The leading operatic composer of his generation in France, Jules Massenet studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in In Paris once.There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize, the Prix de Rome, in 1863, he composed prolifically in many genres, but quickly became best known for his operas.
Between 1867 and his death forty-five years later he wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety