In the collection
2 records
Played with
Philharmonia Slavonica
2 records together
Alberto Lizzio
2 records together
Anton Bruckner
2 records together
Alfred Scholz
2 records together
Edvard Grieg
2 records together
Milan Horvat
2 records together
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1 record together
Musici Di San Marco
1 record together
Süddeutsche Philharmonie
1 record together
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
1 record together
Simfonični Orkester RTV Ljubljana
1 record together
Camerata Romana
1 record together
About
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 and 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, Manon, Le Cid, Werther and Thaïs. In 1878 he was appointed professor of composition at the Paris conservatory; among his pupils are the composers , , , , , , , , , and .