Floquet, Etienne Joseph (1748–1785)

French composer. He received his musical education at the church of Saint-Sauveur at Aix, wrote a motet at the age of ten, and went to Paris in 1767. In 1774, having come into conflict with Gluck's partisans, he went to Naples, where he studied under Sala, and to Bologna, where he sought further instruction from Martini, but returned to Paris in 1777.

Works operas Hellé (1779), Le Seigneur Bienfaisant, La Nouvelle Omphale (1782) and Alceste (Quinault, 1783); opera-ballets L'Union de l'Amour et des Arts and Azolan; two Requiems, ode La Gloire du Seigneur (J B Rousseau).