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Thaïs: MéditationJules Massenet & Martèn LeGrand

Listen to Méditation from "Thaïs" (Live) by ASTA 2003 Ithaca Advanced Violin Ensemble The Moorehead Sixth Grade Orchestra, Sandy Reuning & Jules Massenet, see lyrics, music video & more!

Méditation from "Thaïs" (Live)ASTA 2003 Ithaca Advanced Violin Ensemble The Moorehead Sixth Grade Orchestra, Sandy Reuning & Jules Massenet

Thaïs : MéditationTatsuro Yokoyama & Jules Massenet

Listen to Manon, Act III: Je marche sur tous les chemins (feat. Jules Massenet, RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Andrew Synnott) by Ava Dodd, see lyrics, music video & more!

Manon, Act III: Je marche sur tous les chemins (feat. Jules Massenet, RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Andrew Synnott)Ava Dodd

Nuit d'EspagneGeoffrey Jubault, PHD, Marie Pons & Jules Massenet

Werther, Act III: Pourquoi me réveiller (Live)John Riesen & Jules Massenet

Listen to Élégie by Jules Massenet, Catherine Garrido, Gabriela Nardo & Vilma Garriga, see lyrics, music video & more!

ÉlégieJules Massenet, Catherine Garrido, Gabriela Nardo & Vilma Garriga

LaudFega Michaels & Jules Massenet

Meditation (feat. Anthony Kunz)Henri Star कृष्ण & Jules Massenet

Listen to Meditation aus Thais (feat. Jules Massenet) by Richard Rikkon, see lyrics, music video & more!

Meditation aus Thais (feat. Jules Massenet)Richard Rikkon

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Listen to Grieg: Morning Mood - Albinoni: Adagio - Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits - Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring & Badinerie & Other Classical Hits by Antonio Vivaldi, Benjamin Godard, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Edvard Grieg, Gabriel Fauré, George Frideric Handel, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Jules Massenet, Luigi Boccherini, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sir Neville Marriner, Tomaso Albinoni & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ALBUMGrieg: Morning Mood - Albinoni: Adagio - Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits - Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring & Badinerie & Other Classical HitsAntonio Vivaldi, Benjamin Godard, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Edvard Grieg, Gabriel Fauré, George Frideric Handel, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Jules Massenet, Luigi Boccherini, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sir Neville Marriner, Tomaso Albinoni & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Listen to Belle époque ! by Adèle Charvet & Florian Caroubi

ALBUMBelle époque !Adèle Charvet & Florian Caroubi

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ALBUMJules Massenet: Sept ImprovisationsJean-Michel Serres

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ALBUMLe Secret: Music for Cello & HarpOlga Dowbusch-Lubotsky & Sophia Whitson

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ALBUMUn Baryton Pas Comme Les Autres De l'Opéra à la Romance NapolitaineSTEFANO VENEZIA

ALBUMJe te veux !Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin

ALBUMPARISIENAdolfo Gutiérrez Arenas & Josu De Solaun

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ALBUMJules Massenet: GrisélidisOpéra Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Thomas Dolié, Vannina Santoni, Julien Dran, Adrien Fournaison, Thibault de Damas, Chœur national Montpellier Occitanie, Adèle Charvet, Tassis Christoyannis & Antoinette Dennefeld

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Listen to Massenet: Werther by Robert Spano, Houston Grand Opera, Isabel Leonard & Matthew Polenzani

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Listen to Jules MASSENET - « Poème d'avril », le duo « Rêvons, c'est l'heure », « Élégie » et autres mélodies (with Janine Lachance) by Bruno Laplante

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Listen to Jules MASSENET - Cycles de mélodies et « Expressions lyriques » (with Marc Durand) by Bruno Laplante & France Duval

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Listen to Library of Masterpieces Excerpt of the Famous Classical Music Vol. 2 by Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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ALBUMJules Massenet: WertherOrchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Georges Prêtre

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A prolific French composer who rightly dominated Paris opera in the late 19th century.

About Jules Massenet

Hometown

Montaud, Loire, France

Born

1842

Genre

Classical

Massenet was France’s leading opera composer during the Belle Époque, a period of great cultural and technological optimism shattered ultimately by the outbreak of the First World War. His flair for radiant melody and harmonic luxuriance graced a remarkable series of 32 operas, highlighted by two instrumental hits: the ballet music from Le Cid (1885) and the violin-led “Méditation” from Thaïs (1894). Massenet was born in Montaud in 1842 and, following lessons with his amateur musician mother, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire aged 11. Although a brilliant pianist, it was his experiences playing percussion in theater orchestras that lit his creative flame. His first major breakthrough came in 1884 with Manon, followed in 1892 by Werther. The incurably modest Massenet spent many of his operatic premieres at home with the family, yet never wanted for admirers, even when Debussy and Ravel were stealing all the headlines towards the end of his life. He died in 1912, aged 70.