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Jules Massenet vinyl records

6 albums with 77 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet. 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 .