Natural around Burgundy and brought up inside Dijon, Marie François Maurice Emmanuel became a choristor at Beaune cathedral after his personal moved to the city inside 1869. He entered a Paris Conservatoire, studying composition by using Léo Delibes, and becoming friends by using Claude Debussy who was also researching there.

Emmanuel pursued the notable academic career. He wrote the treatise around 1895 on the music of Ancient Greece, and was appointed prof of composition at a Paris Conservatoire around 1909. His students there involved Olivier Messiaen. Emmanuel's interests involved folksong, Oriental music, and exotic modes — his use one modes inside his compositions experienced appalled Delibes, world health organization got vetoed his typing for the Prix de Rome.

More appointments involved precentor at a church of Sainte-Clothilde from either 1904–1907, in which Charles Tournemire was organist.

His compositions include operas when Aeschylus Prométhée enchaîné & Salamine likewise when symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music. Such as numerous of his compositions, his sextet sonatines for solo piano demonstrate his academic interests. A foremost draws on a music of Burgundy, the 2nd incorporates birdsong, a third utilizes the Burgundian folk tune inside its finale, the for is subtitled nut diverse modes Hindous ("in various Hindu modes").

Reference
Malcolm MacDonald, notes for recording Continuum CCD 1048, Maurice Emmanuel Six Sonatines, Peter Jacobs (piano).