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Stage Works
1,898 tracks
- Operas
1,779 tracks
- Cendrillon (opera)
47 tracks
- Chérubin (opera)
36 tracks
- Cléopâtre (opera)
4 tracks
- Don César de Bazan (comic opera; 2 versions)
6 tracks
- Don Quichotte (comic opera)
124 tracks
- Esclarmonde (opera)
81 tracks
- Grisélidis (opera)
1 track
- Hérodiade (opera)
200 tracks
- La navarraise (opera)
43 tracks
- Le Cid (opera)
103 tracks
- Le roi de Lahore (opera)
37 tracks
- Les érinnyes (opera)
2 tracks
- Manon (opera)
233 tracks
- Roma (tragic opera)
35 tracks
- Sapho (opera)
52 tracks
- Thaïs (opera)
296 tracks
- Thérèse (opera)
15 tracks
- Werther (opera)
464 tracks
- Cendrillon (opera)
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Ballets
49 tracks
- Le cigale (ballet)
2 tracks
- Manon (ballet)
14 tracks
- Bacchus (from the opera)
10 tracks
- Herodiade (from the opera)
6 tracks
- Thais Ballet Music (from the opera)
14 tracks
- Le carillon, ballet in 1 act
3 tracks
- Le cigale (ballet)
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Other Stage Works
70 tracks
- La Vierge (oratorio)
20 tracks
- Marie-Magdeleine (sacred drama)
15 tracks
- Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts
23 tracks
- Ève, mystery drama in 3 acts
12 tracks
- La Vierge (oratorio)
- Operas
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Keyboard Works
56 tracks
- Solo Piano Works
37 tracks
- Devant la Madone, for piano
1 track
- 2 Impromptus
2 tracks
- 7 Improvisations
7 tracks
- Musique pour bercer les petits enfants
1 track
- 10 Pièces de genre, Op.10
15 tracks
- 2 Pièces
2 tracks
- Reverie du pauvre (erroneously attr. to Satie)
2 tracks
- Toccata in Bb
1 track
- Un memento musicale, for piano
1 track
- Valse folle
1 track
- Valse très lente (Very Slow Waltz)
4 tracks
- Devant la Madone, for piano
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Piano 4-Hands
19 tracks
- Année passée (suite of 12 pieces in 4 books)
12 tracks
- Scènes de bal, for piano, 4 hands
7 tracks
- Année passée (suite of 12 pieces in 4 books)
- Solo Piano Works
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Orchestral Works
185 tracks
- Concertos and Similar Works
29 tracks
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Other Orchestral Works
156 tracks
- Cendrillon (ballet suite from the opera)
15 tracks
- Cendrillon (suite from the opera)
14 tracks
- Devant la Madonne (Souvenir de la campagne de Rome, Nuit de Noël)
1 track
- Esclarmonde (suite from the opera)
8 tracks
- Hérodiade (ballet suite from the opera)
5 tracks
- Le Cid (suite from the opera)
34 tracks
- Phèdre (incidental music)
5 tracks
- Suite No.1, Op.13
13 tracks
- Suite No.2 ('Scènes hongroises')
9 tracks
- Suite No.3 ('Scènes dramatiques d'après Shakespeare')
3 tracks
- Suite No.4 for orchestra ('Scènes pittoresques')
13 tracks
- Suite No.5 ('Scènes napolitaines')
6 tracks
- Suite No.6 ('Scènes de féerie')
4 tracks
- Suite No.7 ('Scènes alsaciennes)
12 tracks
- Thaïs (ballet suite from the opera)
14 tracks
- Cendrillon (ballet suite from the opera)
- Concertos and Similar Works
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Vocal Works
97 tracks
- Sacred Vocal Works
7 tracks
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Song Cycles
32 tracks
- Chants intimes, 3 songs for voice and piano
1 track
- 3 Mélodies: deux duos, et un trio, Op.2
2 tracks
- Poème d'avril, cycle of 8 songs, Op.14
1 track
- Poëme d'amour, for soprano, baritone, and piano
2 tracks
- Poëme pastoral, for baritone, 3 female voices, and piano
3 tracks
- 10 Expressions lyriques, songs for voice and piano
10 tracks
- 5 Poème d'octobre, prelude and songs for voice and piano
12 tracks
- À Colombine: Sérénade d'Arlequin, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.1')
1 track
- Chants intimes, 3 songs for voice and piano
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Individual Songs
58 tracks
- Absence
1 track
- Amours bénis, for soprano, horn and piano
1 track
- Amours bénis: Une aube fraîche et printanière, for voice, cello and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.5')
1 track
- C'est l'amour: O oui! ta terre est belle (It's Love: O Yes! The World is Beautiful; after Victor Hugo)
1 track
- Huere vécue: Une nuit brune d'un soir d'hiver, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.7')
2 tracks
- La lettre: Je mets sur le papier luisant, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.7')
1 track
- La mort de la cigale, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.7')
1 track
- La nuit: Parfois, losque tout dort, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.8')
1 track
- Le Printemps visite la terre, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.3')
1 track
- Marquise: Vous en souvenez-vous, Marquise? (from 'Mélodies Vol.3')
1 track
- Nuit d'Espagne: L'air est embaumé
2 tracks
- Oh! si les fleurs avaient des yeux (If Flowers Had Eyes)
6 tracks
- On dit: On dit beaucoup de choses, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.6')
1 track
- Ouvre tes yeux bleus, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.3')
2 tracks
- Pensée d'automne: L'an fuit vers son déclin (Autumn Thought: The Year is Ending)
2 tracks
- Rêvons, c'est l'heure (It's the Hour of our Dreaming)
1 track
- Soleil couchant: Le soleil s'est couché ce soir, for voice and piano (from 'Mélodies, Vol.8')
1 track
- Sonnet: Les grands bois s'éveillaient
1 track
- Stances de Gilbert: Au banquet de la vie, infortuné
1 track
- Élégie: O doux printemps d'autrefois
29 tracks
- Il Bacio
1 track
- Absence
- Sacred Vocal Works
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Chamber Works
2 tracks
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Miscellaneous: Commentary on Massenet's Life and Works
16 tracks
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Stage Works
3 tracks
- Operas
3 tracks
- Thaïs (opera)
3 tracks
- Thaïs (opera)
- Operas
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Keyboard Works
1 track
- Solo Piano Works
1 track
- 10 Pièces de genre, Op.10
1 track
- 10 Pièces de genre, Op.10
- Solo Piano Works
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Vocal Works
1 track
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Individual Songs
1 track
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Individual Songs
Below are works by J.Massenet that every music lover should explore:
- Stage Works
- Thaïs (opera)
296 tracks
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Act 2
- Notable Movement: 7.Méditation
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Act 2
- Werther (opera)
464 tracks
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Act 1
- Notable Movement: 17.Charlotte! Charlotte! Albert est de retour!
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Act 1
- Thaïs (opera)