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4 unusual facts about Claude Le Jeune


Académie de Poésie et de Musique

In order to help further his goals, Baïf enlisted the help of French musicians, the most influential of whom was Claude Le Jeune.

Infelix ego

Another composer who used a similar allusive technique was Lupus Hellinck, who wrote at least three compositions inspired by Savonarola, including two Miserere settings, both of which allude to the Josquin version, and one of which was itself used by French Protestant composer Claude Le Jeune for his own direct setting of Savonarola's other prison meditation, Tristitia obsedit me.

Luci mie traditrici

Deleting the references to Gesualdo, Sciarrino turned to a play, Il tradimento per l'onore, by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, and also used an elegy of Claude Le Jeune, based on a text by Pierre de Ronsard.

Octonaire

Claude Le Jeune and Paschal de L'Estocart both wrote collections of moral chansons, Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde, with 19 texts common to both collections.



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