Valentin de Bournonville

Valentin de Bournonville (c. 1610 – c. December 1663) was a French Baroque composer and music master active in the middle of the 17th century.

In 1643, an act of 23 July shows him depositing his almuce on the desk of the chapter as a sign of obedience, like the other vicars and chaplains of the cathedral.

On 14 April 1651, the chapter reminded him that during the days of great feast, only a psalm and the magnificat were to be sung in music, and the rest by plain chant only.

[5] On 15 April 1652, he was reprimanded at the time of the Chapter session for not showing enough severity towards the children of the choir and obtaining only insufficient progress.

[7] He was sometimes called upon in the same way as Pierre Robert to attest to the good quality of the plainchant works by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, this double approval being given on 14 December 1657.