Denise Launay
Denise Launay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 October 1906 Paris |
| Died | 13 March 1993 (aged 86) Paris |
| Occupation | Organist Musicologist |
Denise Launay (7 October 1906 – 13 March 1993) was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.
Biography[]
Denise Launay's grave at Montfort-l'Amaury.
Launay studied the history of music with André Pirro and Paul-Marie Masson at the Sorbonne, and the organ with André Marchal and Gaston Litaize. From 1939, she was a curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She was the organist at the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church in Paris during 35 ans.[1]
She was buried at , alongside her father Paul Yvon, a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Works[]
Publications[]
- 1965: Essai d’un commentaire de Titelouze par lui-même
- 1974: Anthologie du psaume français polyphonique (1610–1663), tome 1 (n°1 to 14), Éditions ouvrières, 35 p.
- 1993: La musique religieuse en France du Concile de Trente à 1804,[2] Société française de musicologie et Éditions Klincksieck, Paris, ISBN 2-252-02921-8, 583 p.
References[]
External links[]
- Denise Launay on Symétrie
- Discography on Discogs
- Denise Launay on Liturgia
- Les paraphrases bibliques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Categories:
- French classical organists
- Women organists
- 20th-century French musicologists
- 1906 births
- Musicians from Paris
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century organists
- 20th-century French women musicians
- 20th-century classical musicians