Charles Manry

Charles Casimir Manry (8 February 1823 – 18 January 1866) was a French composer and choral conductor.

Charles Manry was the son of Jean Manry, a physician at the hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and a member of the Académie de médecine.

He first studied law and took his legal argument but his fortune enabled him to indulge in his penchant for music.

He had his first Mass for three voices with organ accompaniment performed 1 November 1844 at Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas.

He later had several pieces of sacred music played in Parisian churches: