Victor Massé

Victor Massé ( born March 7, 1822 in Lorient, Morbihan, † July 5, 1884 in Paris) was a French composer.

Life

Since 1834 Massé studied at the Conservatoire de Paris Jacques Fromental Halévy among others. 1844 Massé was awarded the Prix de Rome with a cantata. Although the sacred music inclined, he opted for the opera. From 1850 until his death he provided the Paris Opéra -Comique with repertory works. In 1860 he was a choral conductor at the Paris Opera in 1866 a teacher of composition at the Conservatoire.

Because he was a representative of the conservative style in a transitional phase of the genre Opéra comique, he was soon forgotten, though he was often performed in his time. Worth mentioning are the works Galathée (1852 ) as an opera version of Pygmalion substance ( in 1865 by Franz von Suppe as the beautiful Galathée successfully neuvertont ) and the one-act opera Les noces de Jeannette (1853 ), which was played at the end of the century more than a thousand times. The opera Paul et Virginie (1876 ) from the novel by Bernardin de Saint -Pierre had not the desired effect. His last work, Une Nuit de Cléopâtre to a libretto by J. Barbier, was posthumously premiered in April 1885 in Paris.