Christian Manen (3 July 1934 – 11 September 2020[1]) was a French composer and music teacher.
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Manen studied at the Conservatory of Nice and between 1949 and 1961 at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Here he was a student of Berthe Duru[2] (solfège), Jules Gentil (piano), Félix Passerone[3] (drums), Marcel Dupré and Rolande Falcinelli (organ and improvisation), Louis Fourestier (conducting), Noël Gallon (counterpoint and fugue), Henri Challan (harmony), Norbert Dufourcq (music history) and Tony Aubin (composition).
In 1961 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La Loreley.
In 1970 he founded the Orchestre des Cadets d'Asnières, which he conducted until 1999 and with which he gave almost one hundred concerts in Paris, all of Europe and the USA.