René Drouard du Bousset
René Drouard du Bousset
Genres: baroque, french, 18th century
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About René Drouard du Bousset
René Drouard de Bousset (1703–1760) was a French Baroque composer and organist. He was born in Paris on 12 December 1703. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (d. 1725), minor nobility and maître de musique of the chapelle of the Louvre. René was a pupil of Nicolas Bernier. In February 1739 Bousset was appointed organist at the parish church of St André-des-Arts, Paris, then simultaneously co-organist with Armand-Louis Couperin at Notre Dame de Paris and the church of Saint Merry from 1755 to 1760. He was a Jansenist and noted for a series of publications of cantatas on biblical subjects. Bousset died on 19 May 1760.
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