To search the press groups, associations, sponsor for the site” News-art-culture.com”. Massenet’s’ art is female. The seduction, sensuality, love…the woman is principal figure; touched by harmony, mystic and sensual for her creation. Massenet compose, express, his sensibility from the ballet at opera. A do, a re…. si, fa…. There are musical notes leaves of his think. Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet is birth to Saint Etienne of 12 May 1842 and is died to Paris of 13 April 1912, is been a French compositor, pianist, organist known in opera from obtain a big success with Manon, Werther and Thais works. 

MASSENET AND ARTISTIC CARRIER

Being twelve son of modest family by little industrialists, demonstrates the predispositions for music, those make him transferring to Paris for to accent his talent only nine years with musical study to Conservatory of Paris under lessons by Ambroise Thomas. After three years , comes financial crises, leaves Paris in his fascinate tumult, without to abandon the study and  artistic creativity . 

The difficulties start for the little Massenet, but leave only the dreams! 

Ambition. Talented. Constructive! And the end? He is a winner!

For to continue the studies, he is constrained to maintain with music lessons, singing to pianoforte and drums in epoch locals having few moneys. In the year 1863 he wins the contest” Prix of Rome” a luck that lead him with the studies to Rome for 3 years. Hosted to Villa Medici he composes “ Messa da Requiem” for 8 voice, followed  of a series of lyric compositions, Poems of April and symphony music. After to know the Italian opera music with dramatic imagine, the seduction of compositions became important for his study, from that he travels for riches the musical repertoire in Germany and Hungary. Come back to Paris he composes and writes the opera. The first opera is a unique sing “ La grand tante” represented to Opera- Comique in the 1867 year where is highlighted  the talent for the theatre reveling the melody in composition. And the end of the French- Prussian war he come back to compositions dedicating at public the drama” Maria- Madeleine “obtaining the celebrity and commendatory from part by Tchaikovsky and Gounod. Musical activity to multiplied composing the works:” L’adorabile Bel- Boul” in 1874 on the notebook by Louis Gallet in Cercle des Mirlitons to Paris; Le Roi de Lahore to Opera to Paris . For lyric theatre he composes thirty works with success in “ Erodiate- 1882, Manon-1884, Werther-1892( French opera  more popularizer after the Carmen by Bizet), Le Cid-1885, Thais-1894, Le Jongleur de Nôtre Dame-1902 follow by Don Chisciotte-1910”. In times he is named to cathedra of composition at Conservatoire to Paris having among students Gustave Charpentier, Reynaldo Hahn and Charles Koechlin. In music is noted as inspiring and master of musicians from year 1900 between Gustave Charpentier , Gabriel Faure, Vincenzo Ferroni, Giacomo Puccini.  

THE MUSICAL STYLE; HIS COMPOSITION LIGNE

Accentuates he the female sensibility? His works there are express by female beautiful and mysticism? The woman takes an important part in Massenet’s works, she is protagonist, females portraits have a character and contour accentuating the beauty in the works being loves’ courtesan. What more can desire? The scores are in instrumental segment, harmonious, delicious, painting frescoes, contouring heroic figures but in the end are express in drama. In music the composition presents an harmonious architecture, the orchestration has a big fascination someone is followed by severity. He is talented in dramatic music, express of pure lyrism without a romantic rhetoric.  

THE WORKS, COMPOSITION

La Grand ‘Tante, Don César de Bazan, Le Roi de Lahore, Hérodiade, Manon,Le Cid,Werther, Esclarmonde, Thais, Cendrillon, Sapho, La Navarraise,Roma, Panurge,Cleopatre, Amadis….

Religious compositions, simfony of chamber: Messa da Requiem for 8 voice…

Orators: Marie-Magdeleine, Eve, La Vierge, La Terre promise….

Concert for pianoforte, Fantasy for piano and orchestra, 7 Suites for orchestra…

The logo of night and the night space from Rai are accompanied of the pieces musical “Meditation” to Thais opera. Massenet is captivating, caressing, seducing the listener with melodic harmonious language; clear and simply. The instrumentation is in express colors, shadows with insinuated tons. The art is female to Massenet, from musical sensibility to female sensibility where enter young beautiful, mystic, sensual, in dance and the think enters in eternal love. The drama is always presenting, pointed heroine, expressing the sentiment in tragedy. Massenet’s opera leaves the human think free for dream and desire. The art is made with female beautiful; Massenet is one from composers which express her.