JANNEQUIN (JANEQUIN), *Clément*. — Belgian composer, who lived in the 16th century, of whose life little is known. A pupil of Des Prés, later chaplain to François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, he Clemens Jacob (v.).
Creator of the French chanson in the “a cappella” style, he composed masses, motets; *Sacrae cantiones seu motecta*, 4 vols. (Paris 1533); *Proverbes de Salomon mis en cantique et rime française* (ibid. 1558); *Octante psalms de David* (ibid. 1559). Many of his chansons were printed in Paris in 1529 and in Venice in 1538; others in later editions, while not a few survive in manuscript in various libraries in France and in Rome. All of J.’s compositions stand out for their originality and beauty of invention, and in many chansons the imitative style is skillfully expressed in vividly sonorous tableaux.