René Drouart de Bousset

René Drouard de Bousset (1703–1760) was a French Baroque composer and organist.

He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (d. 1725), minor nobility and maître de musique of the chapelle of the Louvre.

René was a pupil of Nicolas Bernier. He was organist of Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris, then simultaneously co-organist with Armand-Louis Couperin at Notre Dame de Paris and the church of Saint Merry from 1755 to 1760. He was a Jansenist and noted for a series of publications of cantatas on biblical subjects.

• annual motet for the oratory of the Académie des sciences
• Cantates spirituelles, 1er livre, 1735
• 2e recueil de cantates spirituelles tirées des histoires les plus intéressantes de l'Ancien Testament à voix seule, et à deux voix avec simphonie et sans simphonie (1re éd. 1739, 2e éd. 1740)
• Felicity Smith The music of René Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a source study 2008
• Judith cantata - on Le Passage de la Mer Rouge cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Brossard and Bousset. Ensemble Le Tendre Amour, Barcelona, with Luanda Siqueira, soprano. K617. 2009