Le Jeune, Claude (or Claudin) (c. 1530–1600)

Franco-Flemish composer. He worked for most of his life in Paris, France. Having become a Huguenot, he tried to escape from Paris during the siege of 1588, and his manuscripts were saved from seizure by the Catholic soldiers by his colleague Jacques Mauduit, himself a Catholic. Later Le Jeune became chamber musician to the king. Like Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589) and Mauduit, he was an exponent of musique mesurée.

Works motets, psalms set to rhymed versions in measured music and also to tunes in the Genevan Psalter set for three voices; chansons, madrigals; instrumental fantasies, and other pieces.