Henri Duparc was a late romantic-era French composer born in 1848 who is mostly famous for his collection of art songs, pieces based on poems by Baudelaire and/or Gautier. At the age of 37, having been diagnosed with a mental illness once-called “neurasthenia”, he stopped composing and destroyed most of his works but continued to draw and paint until becoming completely blind a few years later. He moved his family out of Paris and settled in Switzerland, where he did many other things, but never wrote music ever again. He died in 1933 at the age of 85.