Jean-Jacques-Baptiste Anet

Jean-Jacques-Baptiste Anet—frequently encountered in French sources and on surviving prints simply as “Baptiste”—was baptized in Paris (parish of Saint-Eustache) on 2 January 1676 and died at Lunéville on 14 August 1755. He was a violinist and composer whose career is traceable not only through later narrative summaries but, crucially, through a small set of surviving printed music books that fix his identity as a publishing composer. An authority notice in the BnF catalogue explicitly warns against confusing him with his father