Personne : Henri Desmarets

Titre Date Rôle
Didon 1693-06-05 compositeur
Circé 1694-10-01 compositeur
Les Amours de Momus 1695-05-25 compositeur
Vénus et Adonis 1697-03-17 compositeur
Les Fêtes galantes 1698-05-10 compositeur
Renaud 1722-03-05 compositeur
Iphigénie en Tauride 1704-05-06 compositeur
Théagène et Chariclée 1695-04-12 compositeur
Le Temple d’Astrée 1709-11-09 compositeur
Idylle sur la naissance du duc de Bourgogne Inconnue compositeur
Endymion 1686-02-16 compositeur
La Diane de Fontainebleau 1686-11-02 compositeur
Divertissement représenté à Barcelone au mariage de Leurs Majestés Catholiques 10-1701 compositeur
Diane et Endymion 01-1711 compositeur
Divertissement pour l’Electeur de Bavière 1712 compositeur
Divertissement pour la fête du Duc de Lorraine 1717-11-15 compositeur

  • Sujet Léris (de), 1763, p. 555-556:
    Objet "DESMARETS (Henri), excellent Musicien, a donné depuis 1693, les Opéra suivans: Didon; Circé; Théagene & Chariclée; les Amours de Momus; Venus & Adonis; les Fêtes galantes; Iphigenie, & Renaud, ou la suite d'Armide. Il étoit né à Paris en 1662, & mourut à Luneville le 7 Septembre 1741, âgé de près de quatre-vingts ans. Il fut élevé Page de la Musique du Roi, & dès l'âge de vingt ans il avoit composé de très-beaux Motets. Des événemens particuliers l'ayant conduit en Espagne, il y occupa pendant quatorze ans la place de Surintendant de la Musique du Roi, ensuite il vint en Lorraine être Directeur de la Musique du Duc de Lorraine."
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  • Sujet BNF, catalogue :
    Objet "Desmarets, Henri (1661-1741) - forme savante à valeur internationale. Naissance : 1661-02 - Mort : 1741-09-07. Compositeur. Forme(s) rejetée(s) : < Démarets, Henri < Desmarais, Henri < Desmarest, Henry < Desmarestz, Henri < Des Marets, Henri < Desmarets, Henry."
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet [extrait de:] Caroline WOOD: 'Desmarets, Henry', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Desmarets [Desmarest, Desmaretz, Desmarais], Henry (b Paris, Feb 1661; d Lunéville, 7 Sept 1741). Little is known of his early musical life other than that he was one of the boy pages of Louis XIV’s musical establishment. […] In 1680 Desmarets was referred to as an ‘ordinaire de la musique du Roy’. Titon du Tillet mentioned an idylle written by him for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy in 1682; this was a form to which he would regularly return.
    […] Some measure of court favour can be inferred from the private performance of his first opera, Endymion, which took place over several days in the king’s apartments, one or two acts at a time, in February 1686, and pleased the dauphine so much that she commanded another performance a few days later. […]
    Within months of the death of his first wife in August 1696, Desmarets had fallen in love with his pupil, the 18-year-old daughter of Jacques de Saint-Gobert, director of taxation for Senlis. The couple’s lurid story, replete with all the ingredients of romantic fiction, is detailed by Antoine (1965). The upshot was a long legal battle, at the end of which in August 1699 the couple fled the country, Desmarets being condemned to death in his absence. The composer began his exile in Brussels. His friend and fellow chapel page, the composer Jean-Baptiste Matho, obtained a letter of recommendation for him from the Duke of Burgundy to the new King of Spain, Philip V, and Desmarets moved to the Spanish court in 1701 and married Mlle de Saint-Gobert. Six years later, again with support from connections in France, he secured an appointment as surintendant de la musique at the court of Lorraine, which was closely modelled on the court of Louis XIV, his duties encompassing both religious and secular music.
    Although he mounted a production of his own, Vénus et Adonis for the court at Lunéville in 1707, Desmarets’operatic activities focussed chiefly on revivals of operas by Lully at both Lunéville and Nancy […] However favourable the musical climate in Lorraine, Desmarets hoped to be allowed to return to France. A petition to Louis XIV on his behalf by Matho in 1712 was rejected, but Desmarets was finally pardoned by the regent in 1720. When Michel-Richard de Lalande died in 1726, Desmarets sought his post of sous-maître, but was unsuccessful. His wife died in the following year and he ended his days in Lorraine."
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  • Sujet Desmarets à Nancy
    Objet Frank DOBBINS : 'Nancy', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 11 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    Duke Leopold "married King Louis XIV’s niece and imitated the pomp of Versailles, appointing Lully’s pupil Desmarets as surintendant de musique and C.M. Magny as maître de ballet. The two collaborated in a divertissement entitled Le temple de l’Astrée, performed at the inauguration of an opera house in 1709. Several operas by Lully and Desmarets followed while the latter also directed his motets at St Georges with the duke’s musicians-in-ordinary, whose numbers had been increased from 12 to 35."
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