Jules Massenet – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Cabinet card of Massenet by Eugène Pirou, 1895 (Source: Wikimedia)

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May 12, 1842 in St. Etienne
†

August 13, 1912 in Paris
Komponist

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Cabinet card of Massenet by Eugène Pirou, 1895 (Source: Wikimedia)

Massenet's birthplace in Montaud, photographed c. 1908 (Source: Wikimedia)

Massenet in the early 1860s (Source: Wikimedia)

Auditorium of the Opéra-Comique (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster for the première of Don César de Bazan by Célestin Nanteuil (Source: Wikimedia)

Design by Philippe Chaperon for Le roi de Lahore, 1877 (Source: Wikimedia)

"M. Massenet's bland pâtisserie and Mlle. Sanderson's sugar-candy notes" baked in "the National Musical Oven". Caricature from La Silhouette, March 1894. (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster for the first French production of Werther. (Source: Wikimedia)

Mary Garden in the title role of Chérubin, 1905 (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for the 1912 Paris première of Roma. (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster by Jean de Paleologu for Sapho, 1897 (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for Don Quichotte, 1910 (Source: Wikimedia)

Among Massenet's interpreters, clockwise from top left: Pierre Monteux, Renée Fleming, Roberto Alagna and Victoria de los Ángeles (Source: Wikimedia)

Massenet in his later years (Source: Wikimedia)

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