Jean-Baptiste de Bousset

Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset was a French Baroque composer and singer whose career spanned the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Born in 1662 at Asnières-lès-Dijon in the Burgundy region of France, he emerged from minor nobility and pursued a musical education that likely included early training in composition and performance before relocating to Paris, where his professional life unfolded within the heart of the French royal and intellectual musical establishments.