Étienne Moulinié

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.

Moulinié worked for Gaston until the latter's death in 1660, at which point he was forced to find new employment.

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 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).