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Jules Massenet

real name Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet

France · 1842-05-12 – 1912-08-13

Jules Massenet is credited on 7,917 releases across 1,519 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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7,917

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1,519

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8

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36

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Prolific French composer, born 12 May 1842 in Montaud (near Saint-Étienne), France and died 13 August 1912 in Paris, France.
He studied composition with Ambroise Thomas and Charles Gounod and won a Grand Prix de Rome in 1863. Massenet concentrated his career on writing operas expressing mainly tender feelings and staging historical heroes and (especially) heroines. He wrote 27 operas including Le Roi de Lahore (1877), Manon (1884), Le Cid (1885), Werther (1892) and Thaïs (1894). In 1878 he was appointed professor of composition at the Paris conservatory; among his pupils are the composers Ernest Chausson, Gustave Charpentier, Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Koechlin, Alfred Bruneau, Gabriel Pierné,,, Henri Rabaud, George Enescu and Florent Schmitt.

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7,917 releases · 1,519 albums · active 1950–2026

  • Performance · 10,051
  • Other credits · 172

Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Walthamstow Assembly Hall · Kingsway Hall · Salle Wagram, Paris

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