Real name: Antoine Boësset

Effective period / Period of releases: 2004

French composer Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), 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 Boesset (1614-1685), was also a composer.