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Antoine Boësset
Person · male · France · Blois · born 1587 · died 1643 · recording since 2004
French musician (1587-1643)
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Also known as Anthoine Boesset · Antoine Boesset · Antoine de Boësset · Антуан Боэссе
Timeline
5 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1580s
1640s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Je meurs sans mourir
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2010s
Biography
English biography249 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366004553
Biography
Antoine Boësset (1586 – 8 December 1643) was a French composer of Baroque music, known particularly for airs de cour. As superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime, 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.
Life and career
Born at Blois and baptised there on 24 February 1587, he was made master of the children within the musical household of the Chambre du roi in 1613. He rose to be the queen's music master in 1617 and secretary to the Chambre du roi in 1620, and finally surintendant of the musical household of the Chambre du roi in 1623 – in the last of these roles he succeeded Guédron (surintendant under Henry IV and Louis XIII), whose daughter he married in 1613. In 1632 he was conseiller and maître d'hôtel ordinaire du roi. He then held all these posts simultaneously until his death.
At the court he got to know Descartes, Mersenne and Huygens. Around 1640 Mersenne arranged a contest between Boësset and the Dutch Catholic priest Joan Albert Ban to set Germain Habert's poem "Me veux-tu voir mourir", but altered the poem's first line and thus its sense in the copy sent to Boësset – this influenced the setting and allowed Boësset to easily win the competition (Mersenne had already criticised Ban's work as boring and trivial). Boësset was also one of the forerunners of the basso continuo in France. He died in Paris in 1643.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -361 | 1th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 59:49
1Una musiqua4:102Départ que le devoir me fait précipiter5:343Ballet des fous & des estropiés de la cervelle : Entrée de L'Embabouinée2:224Ballet des fous & des estropiés de la cervelle : Entrée des demy-fous1:265Ballet des fous & des estropiés de la cervelle : Entrée des Fantasques2:116Ballet des vaillans combattans1:307Récit des Syrèenes : Quel soleil1:578Récit d'Amphion et des Syrènes : Quels doux supplices1:079Récit du Dieu des Songes : Quelle merveilleuse advanture2:4710Récit de Mnémosyne : Quelles beutés, Ô mortels1:4011Récit du temps : Bien que je vole toutes choses & Aux voleurs, au secours, accourez tous2:2312Je meurs sans mourir2:4013A la fin cette bergère3:5714Entrée des laquais4:2915Dove ne vai, crudele1:5516Frescos ayres del prado3:5717La gran chacona3:0718La Pacifique3:0819Ô Dieu !4:0020Nos esprits libres et contents5:29L’Archange & le Lys: Messe & motets d'Antoine Boesset
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:08:26
1Cantica Sacra: Allemanda gravis3:172Anna mater matris redemptoris nostri3:093Quam pulchra es2:334Antiphonier de Montmartre: Missus est Gabriel Angelus0:465Messe du 11e mode: Kyrie1:396Messe du 11e mode: Gloria5:357Meslanges: Prélude1:428Messe du 11e mode: Credo6:309Meslanges: Dum esset rex1:1810Antiphonier de Montmartre: Ave maria gratia plena1:0811Messe du 11e mode: Sanctus2:1012Messe du 11e mode: Agnus Dei3:3313Domine salvum fac regem1:5414Antiphonier de Montmartre: Ecce ancilla Domini0:4915Antiphonae: Veni electa mea2:2516Cantica sacra: Symphonia a 4 viol.2:3317Dixit Dominus4:1118Antiphonier de Montmartre: Gabriel Angelus1:2419Salve Regina3:3920Meslanges: Beata Dei genitrix1:2521Sancta Maria3:5622Visitat Maria Elisabeth2:0023Antiphonae: Similabo eum viro sapienti2:3024Magnificat4:4825Ave mater pia3:32
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Antoine Boësset head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -361 | 1th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Bo%C3%ABssetbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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