Henri Duparc was a French composer of the late Romantic period. He was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College of Vaugirard and became one of his first composition pupils. In 1871, he joined with Saint-Saëns and Romain Bussine to found the Société Nationale de Musique. Mental illness caused him to cease composing in 1885 and he destroyed most of his works. Best known are the orchestral poem Léonore and sixteen songs, … Wikipedia
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