Henry Benoît François Darondeau (born as "d'Arondeau") (28 February 1779 – 30 July 1865) was a 19th-century French composer and piano teacher.
Around 1802, he studied in Paris with Henri-Montan Berton (composition) and Ignaz Anton Ladurner (piano), leaving the Conservatoire without a degree.
[1] Afterwards he was active as a piano teacher and composer before he moved to Bourges in 1836.
In Bourges, he worked as an organist and gave lessons in solfège, piano, harmony and counterpoint, among others to the young Frédéric Barbier.
In 1860, he returned to Paris, resuming his wide-spread contacts among notable musicians of his time, including Adolphe Adam and François Antoine Habeneck, and poets like Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers.