René Drouart de Bousset

René Drouard de Bousset (1703–1760) was a French Baroque composer and organist.

He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (d. 1725), minor nobility and maître de musique of the chapelle of the Louvre.[1]

René was a pupil of Nicolas Bernier. He was organist of Saint-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.

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References

  1. Dictionnaire veridique des origines des maisons nobles ou anobles 1818 p335


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