There his mother ( Adélaïde Massenet, née Royer ; her husband's second wife ) started taking piano pupils.

In 1892 he started studying with Massenet for composition, André Gedalge for fugue and counterpoint, and Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray for musical history.

In 1998, Brava started recording her first classical album with John Lenehan at Abbey Road Studios in London, and the Linda Brava album was released worldwide in 1999, the tracklisting including Edvard Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor as well as lyrical violin miniatures by Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Jean Sibelius, Johann Sebastian Bach-Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Niccolò Paganini and Fritz Kreisler.

Conceiving originally Don Quichotte to be a three-act opera, Massenet started to compose it in 1909 at a time when he, suffering from acute rheumatic pains, spent more of his time in bed than out of it, and composition of Don Quichotte became, in his words, a sort of " soothing balm.

Massenet took a break from his composing to serve as a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War, but returned to his art following the end of the conflict in 1871.

* Jules Massenet, French composer ( while composing Esclarmonde )

* Werther, Werther ( Massenet )

* Charlotte, Werther ( Massenet )@

Werther is an opera (' Drame lyrique ') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, based partly on fact and Goethe's own early life.

Although written for a tenor, Massenet adjusted the role of Werther for a baritone, when Mattia Battistini sang it in Saint Petersburg in 1902.

Historic ( vocal ) -- Massenet: Werther ; Georges Thill ( ten ), Vallin ( mez ) Roque ( bar ), Faraldy ( sop ), Narcon ( bass ); Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera-Contique, Elie Cohen ( cnd ); EMI

Engineering -- Massenet, Werther, Sir Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra ( Philips )

* Jules Massenet: Werther conducted by Kent Nagano ( 1997 ) Elektra

* Massenet: Werther ( 1999 ) -- CD As Charlotte with Vladimir Jurowski & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

** Albert, Werther ( Jules Massenet )

Bonynge then gradually added also middle Verdi ( La traviata, Rigoletto, Il trovatore ), Offenbach ( Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ), then also Massenet ( Esclarmonde and Werther ).

Chirps from electronic birds at the beginning, mixed with a slow beat and sounds of a piano leads to Sandra's whispers and ends with some samples of Callas singing the aria Ces lettres, ces lettres from the opera Werther by Massenet.

* Massenet, Werther – Charlotte ( Plasson, 1979, EMI / Angel )

After 1850, Huebner notes a continuing tradition of operas at Paris where ' principals appear with chorus at the end of an act and where private intrigue conjoins a well-articulated public dimension in the plot ' and cites amongst others Charles Gounod's La nonne sanglante ( 1854 ), Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet and operas by Jules Massenet, amongst them Le Roi de Lahore ( 1877 ) and Le Cid ( 1885 ).

There he took lessons in composition under Jules Massenet ( from 1885 ) and had a reputation of wanting to shock his professors.

In 1885 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, studying under Théodore Dubois, then Jules Massenet, where he became a close friend of the young Georges Enesco.

There were, however, many other veristi: Franco Alfano, best known however for completing Puccini's Turandot, Alfredo Catalani, Gustave Charpentier ( Louise ), Eugen d ' Albert ( Tiefland ), Ignatz Waghalter ( Der Teufelsweg and Jugend ), Alberto Franchetti, Franco Leoni, Jules Massenet ( La Navarraise ), Licinio Refice, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, ( I gioielli della Madonna ), and Riccardo Zandonai.

Jules Massenet and Jean Richepin ( the last as Apollo Citharoedus ), authors of Le Mage, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 16 March 1891.

Many Belle Epoque composers working in Paris are still popular today: Eric Satie, Claude Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, and Camille Saint-Saëns and his pupil, Maurice Ravel.

In October 1879, at the age of 25, he began attending the composition classes of the opera composer Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire ; Massenet came to regard him as ' an exceptional person and a true artist '.

It was first performed at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on 16 March 1894, starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for whom Massenet had written the title role.

Massenet died in Paris at the age of 70, after suffering from a long illness ( cancer ).

In 1892 he gained the first place prize at the Paris Conservatory, and Jules Massenet wrote a violin concerto especially for his benefit.

After military service and graduating from law school, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied counterpoint with Théodore Dubois and went to the classes of Jules Massenet.

Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse, and studied at the conservatoires there and in Paris, under Jules Massenet at the latter.

Vidal conducted at the Paris Opera where he made his first appearance directing Gwendoline in 1894 ( he had coached the singers for the Paris premiere in 1893 ), and later conducted the first performance of Ariane and the Paris premieres of Roma by Massenet, and L ' étranger by d ’ Indy.

Jules Massenet had at least two large scale historical works to his credit, Le roi de Lahore ( Paris, 1877, assessed by Grove as " the last grand opera to have a great and widespread success.

The opera had great success on its opening night, and was soon brought to the Vienna Staatsoper by Mahler, and then to Paris where it was reportedly admired by both Massenet and Saint-Saëns.

He was born in Paris ( or Buenos Aires ) of German Argentine parents and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, under Massenet, whose influence, with that of Gounod, is strongly marked in his music.

The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique on 19 May 1911, in a double-bill with Thérèse by Jules Massenet ; after the initial nine performances it was not revived.

He also busied himself judging entrants for the Prix de Rome – arguing successfully for the eventual winner, the 21 year old Jules Massenet.

Adolphe Bizet led the mourners, who included Gounod, Thomas, Ludovic Halévy, Léon Halévy and Massenet.

The Jules Massenet opera Don Quichotte depicts Dulcinée as a major character, the local queen who sends the knight on a quest to retrieve her jewels.

She also met Jules Massenet, who encouraged her to compose.

It was founded by Romain Bussine and Camille Saint-Saëns, who shared the presidency, and early members included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, Jules Massenet, Jules Garcin, Gabriel Fauré, Alexis de Castillon, Henri Duparc, Théodore Dubois, and Paul Taffanel.

Her maternal grandmother was Man ' Ha Dombasle ( née Germaine Massenet, 1898 – 1999 ), a writer and poet who translated Rabindranath Tagore's works into French and was a longtime friend of the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who dedicated his 1972 novel The Halloween Tree to her.

Massenet identified personally with his comic-heroic protagonist, as he was in love with Lucy Arbell who sang Dulcinée at the first performance.