Which composer lived a longer life, Dmitri Shostakovich or Jules Massenet?
Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (] ; 12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. 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.
String Quartet No. 15 (Shostakovich) The String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last quartet. It was completed on 17 May 1974 and premiered in Leningrad by the Taneiev Quartet on 15 November (one of only two Shostakovich quartets not premiered by the Beethoven Quartet). Like most of the composer's late works, it is an introspective meditation on mortality.