Henri Dumont
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Henri Dumont was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
Mid-18c watercolor, purportedly a portrait of Henri Dumont
Henri Desmarets
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Henri Desmarets was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.
Henri Dumont
…after his death. Dumont's grands motets for the Chapelle Royale are the first representatives of the genre. Unlike the later works of Lully, Delalande, Desmarest, Charpentier, Mondonville and Rameau they are not made of successive movements unified by key and thematic material - rather, the versets (without final…
Title page of the scores for Louis Lully's Orphée and Henri Desmarets' Circé, published by Philidor in 1703
The Palace of Versailles, where Desmarets' opera Endymion was first performed in 1686