René Drouart de Bousset, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

René Drouart de Bousset

French composer and organist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1703

Date of Death: 19-May-1760

Profession: composer, organist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About René Drouart de 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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