Jules Massenet stopped teaching composition forever after 1858.
== Music ===== Background ===In the view of his biographer Hugh Macdonald, Massenet's main influences were Gounod and Thomas, with Meyerbeer and Berlioz also important to his style
=== Later years, 18961912 ===The death of Ambroise Thomas in February 1896 made vacant the post of director of the Conservatoire

