Antoine Boësset France
Biography
Antoine Boësset,Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586, Blois – 8 December 1643, Paris), sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Regime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his father-in-law Pierre Guédron dominated the court's musical life for the first half of the 17th century under Louis XIII. His son Jean-Baptiste [de] Boesset, sieur de Dehault, composed church music.
