Desmarets, Henri (1661–1741)

French composer. He was educated at the court of Louis XIV. At the end of the 17th century he secretly married the daughter of a dignitary at Senlis and fled to Spain, becoming music superintendent to Philip V in 1700. In 1708 he became music director to the Duke of Lorraine at Lunéville.

Works Operas and ballets Didon (1693), Circé, Théagène et Chariclée (on Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 1695), Les Amours de Momus, Vénus et Adonis, Les Fêtes galantes (1698), Iphigénie en Tauride (with Campra), and Renaud ou La Suite d'Armide (1722).

Other motet and Te Deum for the marriage of Princess Elisabeth Thérèse to the king of Sardinia; church music written early in his career under the name of Goupillier.