Pierre Passereau (
fl. 1509 – 1547) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with
Clément Janequin, he was one of the most popular composers of "Parisian"
chansons in France in the 1530s. His output consisted almost exclusively of chansons; most of them were published by printer
Pierre Attaingnant. Most of them were "rustic" in character, similar to
patter songs, using
onomatopoeia,
double entendres, and frequent
obscenity, a common feature of popular music in France and the Low Countries in the 1530s.