JULES SMILE See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

FREDERIC See also:

• JULES SMILE FREDERIC MASSENET (1842– )

MASSENET (1842– )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French composer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Montaud, on the 12th of May 1842 . He studied at the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris See also:

• CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire, where he obtained the See also:

• GRAND

Grand Prix de See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in 1863 with the See also:

• CANTATA (Italian for a song or story set to music)

cantata See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• RIZZIO

Rizzio . See also:

• MASSENET, JULES SMILE FREDERIC (1842– )

Massenet became one of the most prolific composers of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . His operas include the following: La Grande tante, one See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act, See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera comique (1867); See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don Cesar de Bazan, three acts, opera comique (1872); Le Roi de See also:

• LAHORE

Lahore, five acts, opera (1877); Herodiade, five acts (See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, 1881); Manon, five acts, opera comique (1884); Le See also:

• CID, THE

Cid, four acts, opera (1885); Esdarmonde, four acts, opera comique (1889); Le Mage, five acts, opera (1891); Werther, four acts (See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1892); See also:

• THAIS

Thais, three acts, opera (1894); Le Portrait de Manon, one act, opera comique (1894); La Navarraise, two acts (Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, 1894); Sapho, opera comique (1897); Cendrillon, opera comique (1900) ; Griselidis, opera comique (1901); Le Jongleur de Notre See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame (See also:

• MENTONE (Fr. Menton)

Mentone, 1902) . Of these the most popular is Manon . Massenet's other See also:

• WORKS

works include See also:

• MARIE

Marie Madeleine, sacred See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama (1873); See also:

• EVE

Eve, a See also:

• MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery (1875); La See also:

• VIERGE, DANIEL (1851-1904)

Vierge, sacred See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend (188o); six orchestral suites entitled Scenes hongroises, Scenes pittoresques, Scenes dramatiques, Scenes napolitaines, Scenes de feerie, Scenes alsaciennes; See also:

• MUSIC

music to the tragedy See also:

• LES

Les Erynnies, to See also:

• THEODORA
• THEODORA (d. 1057)

Theodora, Le See also:

• CROCODILE

Crocodile, L'See also:

• HETMAN

Hetman; a See also:

• REQUIEM

requiem, Narcisse; an idyll, Biblis; a See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

Scene See also:

• ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique; several sets of songs, entitled See also:

• PAINE, ROBERT TREAT (1731–1814)
• PAINE, THOMAS (1737–1809)

Paine d'avril, Poeme d'amour, Paine d'hiver, Poeme d'octobre, Paine See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral, Poeme du souvenir; also a large number of detached songs . He was See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition at the Conservatoire from 1878 to 1896, among his pupils being Hillemacher, Marty, See also:

• BRUNEAU, ALFRED (1857– )

Bruneau, Vidal, Pierne, See also:

• LEROUX, PIERRE (1798-1871)

Leroux and See also:

• CHARPENTIER, FRANCOIS (1620-1702)

Charpentier . Massenet undoubtedly possesses a See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of his own . He is at his best in music descriptive of the See also:

• TENDER

tender See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, and many of the love scenes in his operas are very beautiful .