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Jean-Joseph Mouret 11 April in Avignon— 22 December in Charenton-le-Pont was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque musicin his country.

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Even though most of his works are no longer performed, Mouret's name survives today thanks to the popularity of the Fanfare-Rondeaufrom his first Suite de symphonies , which has been adopted as the signature tune of the PBSprogram Masterpiece and is a popular musical choice in many modern weddings. Mouret's father was a prosperous silk merchant of Avignon, an amateur violinist who recognized his son's precocious musical abilities and provided him with a fine education.

The elder Mouret generously supported his son's decision to pursue a musical career. As a youth, Mouret proved himself a talented singer while also earning success for his compositions. Around the age of twenty-five, Mouret settled in Paris. News of his arrival did not take long to spread and he was introduced to Anne, Duchess of Maine, whose salonat Sceauxwas a center of courtly society in the declining years of Louis XIV.

His genial character strongly assisted him in securing the patronage of the Duchess, who made him her Surintendant de la musique at Sceaux about The version proved to be more acceptable and very popular, and continued to be performed up until Mouret married and had one daughter. However, his later years were overshadowed by financial and social disappointments.

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The location of his grave is unknown. Mouret composed mainly for the stage. He contributed to the emergence of the distinctively French genres of lyric tragedyand opera-balletbut his jealousy of the rising star of Jean-Philippe Rameauled to the bitterness and madness in which he ended his days:. Mouret also wrote airs, divertissements, cantatilles, motets, and instrumental works sonatas, fanfares.