Mauduit, Jacques (1557–1627)

French lutenist and composer. He was, like his father before him, registrar to the courts of justice in Paris, but became famous as a musician. In 1588 he saved the manuscripts of his Huguenot friend Claude Le Jeune from destruction by Catholic soldiers, though he was himself a Catholic.

In 1581 he won first prize at the annual Puy de Musique at Evreux, and he was associated with Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589) in his experiments with musique mesurée, though after Baïf's death he relaxed the rigid subordination of music to verbal rhythm in his settings of verse.

Works Requiem on the death of the poet Ronsard (1585), motets, chansons, chansonnettes mesurées for four voices, and other pieces.