Claude the Young person
The French type-setter Claude the Young person was born with Valencian towards 1530 and died in Paris in 1600.
Biography
Although protesting, the Young person one was quickly accustomed of the Parisian intellectual coteries. Protected by William of Orange and the duke from Anjou, the Young person became principal Compositeur then Maître of the music of the king Henri IV. He used various processes the such Polyphonie, the Plain-chant - liturgical song monodic -, the Mélisme - groups of decorative notes sung on only one syllable -, the gun - Fugue with several voices -, the madrigaux - profane songs with two votes. Its Magnificat and its motets made a success of the synthesis of the Italian models and free-Flemish. He took part in a reform of the music, known as “music measured with the antique”. This one - which used the poetic texts according to rates/rhythms based on the Syllabe S of the words - was illustrated by certain Motet S, Psaume S and polyphonic Chanson S of the Young person.The difficult times reserved to the Protestants prevented the Young person from reaching the notoriety which it would have deserved and its elaborate model did not survive a long time after its death.
Its work
Many of its works arrived to us: many songs, more than three hundred Protestant psalms, Latin arrangements, a dozen motets, a magnificat, a great mass, and three instrumental imaginations. Its Missa AD placitum , its magnificat and its motets is its most succeeded work.