Antoine de Cousu

Antoine de Cousu Du Cousu was a French cleric, Kapellmeister, composer and theorist, active in Picardy in the first half of the 17th century. Biography Noyon De Cousu was born in Amiens in the early 17th century. The first mention of him is of a singing post at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in 1632. Cousu was later a maître de chapelle at Noyon. Saint-Quentin In February 1635, Mersenne said he was a master of the music of the cathedral of Saint Quentin, and in 1636 mentions him twice as a canon of the collegiate church of the same city. Two notarial acts concerning him are known at Saint-Quentin: on 19 July 1637 he was witness to the marriage contract of Milan de Chauvenet with Catherine Le Sergent; he was also witness to the marriage of Georges de Chauvenet with Marie Le Sergent on 8 September 1641. He died in Saint-Quentin on 11 August 1658 and was buried in the Saint-Nicolas chapel (today Saint-Roch chapel) of the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin. Works Cousu is better known as a theorist than a composer, having left an important treatise on music and a single fantasy with four parts. The Système royal Around 1633, Cousu published a “Système Royal”, dedicated to Louis XIII, pro