Étienne Moulinié (10 October 1599 – 1676) was a French
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
. He was born in
Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the
Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine (died 1655), Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for
Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the
king. For this post he wrote sacred and secular music, for voice or voices and
lute
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...
or
continuo. He also wrote music to accompany the ''
ballet'' or other dances. He taught Gaston's daughter, Mlle de Montpensier. Moulinié worked for Gaston until the latter's death in 1660, at which point he was forced to find new employment. For this he returned to his birthplace of Languedoc.
[Grove, "Étienne Moulinié"]
Moulinié wrote in the genres of ''
airs de cour'' and ''
airs à boire AIRS may refer to:
* Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, a weather and climate instrument flying on NASA's Aqua satellite
* Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere, a guidance system designed for use in the LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM
* Artificial Intelligence ...
''. His ''airs de cour'' are
strophic and
syllabic, but generally freer than others in the genre. His works were printed in a number of different forms (for voices alone and voice with continuo), and many were changed into sacred texts for use in church, although he also wrote other pieces which were religious from the start. His work may have been influenced by music of other countries, including the dance music of Spain and Italy. His songs, and their new texts, became very well traveled, being translated into German and Dutch, one being published far away by the Prussian musician
Heinrich Albert (Königsberg, 1648).
References
*
*
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, ''The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks,'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Notes
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moulinie, Etienne
1599 births
1676 deaths
17th-century classical composers
17th-century French people
French Baroque composers
French male classical composers
17th-century male musicians