Jules Massenet Net Worth

Jules Massenet Net Worth is
$800,000

Jules Massenet Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French: [ ?yl emil f?ede?ik masn? ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer best known for his thirty-five operas, of which 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.Showing early signs of musical talent, while still a schoolboy Massenet was admitted to France's principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire, where 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 (not including his many suites of incidental music) 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.Massenet was a popular and respected professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1878 until 1896, when he resigned after the death of its director, Ambroise Thomas. Among his students were Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Pierné.By the time of his death, Massenet was regarded by many critics as old-fashioned and unadventurous, although his two best known operas remained popular in France and abroad. After a few decades of neglect, his works began to be favourably reassessed by the mid-20th century, and many of them have since been staged and recorded. Although critics do not rank him among the handful of outstanding operatic geniuses such as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, his operas are now widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque. 

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