Claude Le Jeune

Claude Le Jeune (c. 1530 in Valenciennes, † end of September 1600 in Paris) was a Franco- Flemish composer Huguenot faith.

He lived in Paris and had close relations with the group of poets La Pléiade. He is one next to Guillaume Costeley and Jacques Mauduit the most important composers of Musique mesurée. Well thanks to the intercession of his friend composer Jacques Mauduit he could act freely even before the Edict of Nantes in 1598, despite his Reformed confession, since 1594 belonged to the court orchestra of Henry IV and was in 1596 appointed to the Royal Chamber composers. He died in Paris and was buried on September 28, 1600.

Several times he occupied himself as a composer of hymns with the Geneva Psalter. The 1601 edition of the published after his death Gesamtpsalters was, inter alia, 1646 in Amsterdam, printed in Basel in 1669 with the German text Ambrosius Lobwassers and 1733 even in Strada in the Lower Engadine with Rhaeto-Romanic text.

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