Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: From 1896 he was a pupil of Gabriel FaurÃ , where his fellow-pupils now included Ravel and Jean Roger-Ducasse .
Simplified: Two years later he was studying composition with Massenet , and in 1896 he was a pupil of Gabriel FaurÃ . Ravel was a pupil in the same class .