A singer and composer (1599-1676) who acquired his musical training at Saint Juste cathedral music school in Narbonne. He joined his elder brother in Paris who was an official royal cantor with the Musique de la Chambre. Moulinié first trained in religious music but turned to composing airs de cour, a popular secular genre at the time. In 1624 Pierre Ballard published the first book of airs for lute tablature followed by airs for solo voice accompanied by lute or guitar. In 1627 Moulinié entered the service of the King's brother Gaston d’Orléans and directed his music until the death of the Prince in 1660. From 1634 he also served Anne Marie-Louise d’Orléans-Montpensier, Gaston d'Orléans' daughter. He worked on several court ballets such as the Ballet du Monde Renversé (1624) and the Ballet des Quatre Monarchies Chrétiennes (1635). He also wrote a 5 Part Mass, Missa pro defunctis à 5 voix in 1636 and a publication intitled Meslanges de sujets chrestiens (1658). Moulinié returned to the land of his birth around 1663, becoming Superintendent of music with life tenure in Languedoc in 1667. He published his final collection of polyphonic airs in 1668.
