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Jules Massenet

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A Colombine (2)
A deux pleurer (2)
A la Zuecca, 'Chanson venitienne' (1)
A la Zuecca (1)
A la trepassee (1)
Ames obscures (1)
Amoureuse (3)
Amoureux appel (2)
Amoureux d'une etoile (1)
Amours benis (3)
Anniversaire (1)
Apaisement (1)
Ariane (1)
Au-dela du reve (1)
Aubade (1)
Aube paienne (1)
Au large (1)
Aurore (1)
Au tres aime (1)
Aux etoiles (2)
Avant la bataille (Reischoffen) (1)
Ave Margarita (1)
Ave Maria (2)
Avec toi (2)
Aveu (1)
Avril est amoureux (April is in love) (2)
Avril est la (1)
Bacchus (2)
Baiser-Impromptu (2)
Baiser (1)
Ballade de Rizzio (1)
Beaux yeux que j'aime (2)
Berceuse (1)
Brumaire: Overture (1)
C'est l'amour (It's love) (2)
C'est le printemps (1)
C'etait dans la saison des roses (1)
Cendrillon (Cinderella): Ballet Suite (4)
Cendrillon (Cinderella) (9)
» Marche
Ce que disent les cloches (2)
Ce sont les petits que je veux chanter (1)
Chanson andalouse (3)
Chanson de Capri (1)
Chanson de Rizzio (1)
Chanson desesperee (2)
Chanson juanesque (1)
Chanson pour elle (2)
Chansons des bois d'Amaranthe (1)
Chant de guerre cosaque (1)
Chant de nourrice (1)
Chant provencal (3)
Chants intimes (3)
Cherubin (4)
Come into the Garden, Maud (2)
Comoedia (1)
Complainte tzigane (1)
Coup d'ivresse (1)
Coupe d'ivresse (1)
Crepuscule (arr. Stephen Hough) (1)
Crepuscule (2)
Dans le sentier, parmi les roses (3)
Dans ton regard ou ton sourire rien mon souci (1)
Depart (2)
Dernier sommeil (1)
Deux impressions pour piano (1)
Deux pieces pour piano (1)
Devant l'infini (1)
Devant la Madone (1)
Dialogue nocturne (2)
Dieu crea le desert (2)
Dites-lui que je l'aime (2)
Dix pieces de genre, op.10 (1)
Don Cesar de Bazan (6)
Don Quichotte (9)
Dormons parmi les lis (1)
Dors, Magda! (1)
Dors, ami (1)
Ecoute-moi Madeleine (1)
Effusion (1)
Elegie (arr. H Villa-Lobos) (1)
Elegie (30)
Elle s'en est allee (2)
En avant (pour les ecoles) (1)
En chantant (1)
Enchantement! (3)
Epithalame (1)
Esclarmonde: Suite (1)
Esclarmonde (2)
Espada: Ballet (1)
Espada: Suite (1)
Eternite (2)
Et puis! (1)
Etre aime (2)
Eveil (1)
Eve (1)
Expressions lyriques (10) (3)
Exstase printaniere (1)
Fantasy for cello and orchestra (1)
Fleurs cueillies (1)
Fleurs sacrees (1)
Fourvieres (1)
Grande Fantaisie sur le Pardon de Ploermel (1)
Griselidis (extract) (1)
Guitare (2)
Herodiade: Ballet Suite (3)
Herodiade (16)
Heure vecue (2)
Hommage a Hugo (1)
Horace et Lydie (2)
Hymne d'amour (2)
Ideal (1)
Il pleuvait (It was raining) (3)
Impromptus (2) (1)
Ivre d'amour (Intoxicated with love) (2)
Jamais plus! (2)
Je cours apres le bonheur (2)
Je m'en suis alle vers l'amour (2)
Je mourrai plus que toi (1)
Je t'aime (4)
Joie! (1)
Jour de noces (2)
L'Improvisateur (1)
L'ame des fleurs (2)
L'ame des oiseaux (2)
L'amour pleure (1)
L'ange et l'enfant (1)
L'eventail (2)
L'exile (1)
L'heure douce (1)
L'heure solitaire (2)
L'heureuse souffrance (2)
L'heure vecue (1)
L'heure volee (1)
L'improvisatore (2)
L'inquietude (1)
L'oiseau du Paradis (1)
La Chanson de Musette (2)
La Mer (after Schubert) (1)
La Vierge (6)
La chanson des levres (1)
La chanson du ruisseau (2)
La derniere chanson (2)
La fleur et le papillon (1)
La gavotte de Puyjoli (1)
La legende de Saint-Nicolas (1)
La lettre (2)
La marchande des reves (1)
La melodie des baisers (2)
La mort de la cigale (3)
La neige (2)
La nuit (2)
La part a Dieu (1)
La riviere (1)
Larmes maternelles (1)
La veille du petit Jesus (1)
La verdadera vida (Real life music) (2)
La vision de Loti (1)
Le Carillon (1)
Le Cid: Ballet Suite (8)
Le Cid (27)
Le Mage (2)
Le Noel des humbles (2)
Le Poete et le fantome (4)
Le Roi de Lahore (4)
Le Soir (1)
Le coffret d'ebene (2)
Le crucifix (1)
Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge (The last sleep of the Virgin) (2)
Le detour de chemin (1)
Le jongleur de Notre Dame (3)
Le nid (1)
Lent et sombre (1)
Le petit Jesus (2)
Le poeme des fleurs (1)
Le poete est roi (1)
Le printemps visite la terre (2)
Le roman d’Arlequin (1)
Les Alcyons (1)
Les Enfants (2)
Les Erinnyes (6)
» Elegie
Les Extases (3)
Le sais-tu? (3)
Les ames (1)
Les amoureuses sont des folles (2)
Les belles de nuit (1)
Le sentier perdu, 'Idylle' (1)
Les femmes de Magdala (1)
Les filles de La Rochelle (1)
Les fleurs (3)
Les mains (2)
Les meres (1)
Les nuages (1)
Les oiselets (2)
Les yeux clos (5)
Le temps et l'amour (2)
Le vendange (1)
Loin de moi ta levre qui ment (2)
Lui et elle, 'Diptyque' (1)
Madrigal (1)
Manon (67)
Ma petite mere a pleure (My mother cried) (3)
Marche napolitaine de Carlo Baldi (1)
Marie Magdeleine (3)
Marquise! (1)
Marquis (1)
Melancolie (1)
Melodie-Elegie (3)
Melodie bretonne (1)
Melodies (3), 2 Duos et 1 Trio, op.2 (2)
Melodies (4), op.12 (2)
Menteuse cherie (2)
Menuet d'amour (1)
Mienne (1)
Mon page (1)
Morceaux De Concours (2) (1)
Mousme (1)
Musette (1)
Musique pour bercer les petits enfants (1)
Napoletana (1)
Narcisse a la fontaine (1)
Ne donne pas ton coeur (1)
Neere (1)
Noel des fleurs (2)
Noel paien (2)
Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air (1)
Nuit d'Espagne (7)
O dear fountain (Narcissus) (1)
Oh! Si les fleurs avaient des yeux (3)
Oiseau des bois (1)
On dit! (5)
Orphelines (1)
O ruisseau (1)
Ouvre tes yeux bleus (4)
Page d'album (1)
Parfums (1)
Passionement (1)
Passionnement (1)
Pensee d'automne (2)
Pensee de printemps (3)
Perce-neige (1)
Petite Mireille (1)
Phedre (3)
Piano Concerto in E flat major (4)
Pieces (2) for piano (1)
Pieces (10) de genre, op.10 (1)
Pitchounette (3)
Plus vite (2)
Poeme d'amour (2)
Poeme d'avril, op.14 (5)
Poeme d'hiver (1)
Poeme d'octobre (6 songs) (2)
Poeme d'un soir (1)
Poeme du Souvenir (1)
Poeme pastoral (2)
Poemes chastes (3) (1)
Poemes d'amour (6) (1)
Poesie de Mytis (1)
Pour Antoinette (1)
Prelude in C major (1)
Premiere danse (2)
Premiers fils d'argent (1)
Pres de vous (1)
Printemps aux bois (1)
Printemps dernier (1)
Quand on aime (When you're in love) (3)
Quelques chansons mauves (3) (2)
Refus (1)
Regard d'enfant (1)
Retour d'oiseaux (1)
Reverie de Colombine (1)
Reverie sentimentale (2)
Revons, c'est l'heure (4)
Rien n'est que de France (1)
Rien ne passe! (2)
Roma (2)
Rondel de la Belle au bois dormant (1)
Sainte Therese prie (2)
Salut, printemps! (2)
Sapho (4)
Scene religieuse (1)
Scenes Napolitaines 'Suite no.5' (2)
Scenes alsaciennes, 'Suite no.7' (6)
Scenes de feerie 'Suite no.6' (2)
Scenes dramatiques, 'Suite no.3' (2)
Scenes hongroises, 'Suite no.2' (1)
Scenes pittoresques, 'Suite no.4' (5)
Separation (1)
Septembre (1)
Sept improvisations (1)
Serenade 'de Moliere' (1)
Serenade d'automne (2)
Serenade de Zanetto (1)
Serenade du Passant (1)
Sevillana (1)
Si tu l'oses! (If you dare!) (2)
Si tu m'aimes (1)
Si tu veux, Mignonne (2)
Si vous vouliez bien me le dire (2)
Soeur d'election (2)
Soir de printemps (1)
Soir de reve (2)
Soleil couchant (3)
Sonnet paien (1)
Sonnet (3)
Souhait (2)
Sous les branches (1)
Souvenance (1)
Souvenez-vous, Vierge Marie! (2)
Souvenir d'Orient (1)
Souvenir de Venise (1)
Souvenirs d'enfance (1)
Stances (2)
Suite no.1 for piano 4 hands, op.11 (1)
Suite no.1, op.13 (1)
Sur une poesie de Van Hasselt, 'L'attente' (1)
Sutie no.1, op.13 (1)
Tambourins (1)
Tes cheveux (1)
Thais: Ballet Suite (3)
Thais: Meditation (Ave Maria) (1)
Thais: Meditation (arr. Martin Marsick) (6)
Thais: Meditation (arr. Martin Marsick, Mischa Maisky) (1)
Thais: Meditation (arr. N Dautricourt for strings) (1)
Thais: Meditation (arr. Roget Nichols) (1)
Thais: Meditation (arr. for cornet and brass band) (1)
Thais: Meditation (arr. for violin and piano) (3)
Thais: Meditation (trans. flute) (2)
Thais: Meditation (trans. for double bass) (2)
Thais: Meditation (68)
Thais (51)
Therese (2)
Toccata (2)
Ton souvenir (1)
Toujours (1)
Tour passe (1)
Tout passe! (1)
Tristesse du soir (2)
Un Momento musicale (1)
Un adieu (2)
Valse folle (3)
Valse tres lente (3)
Venez, devin Messie (1)
Vieille lettres (1)
Visions (symphonic poem) (1)
Voix de femmes (1)
Voix supreme (1)
Vous aimerez demain (1)
Vous qui passez (1)
Werther (highlights) (1)
Werther (55)
Yamey you nou beyrey (1)

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer 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. 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 of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale depictions of classical myths, romantic comedies, lyric dramas, as well as oratorios, cantatas and ballets. Massenet had a good sense of the theatre and of what would succeed with the Parisian public. Despite some miscalculations, he produced a series of successes that made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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