Denise Launay Explained
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| Birth Date: | 7 October 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Paris |
| Death Place: | Paris |
| Occupation: | Organist
Musicologist |
Denise Launay (7 October 1906 – 13 March 1993) was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.
Biography
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,, 583 p.
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.musimem.com/obi-0492-0593.htm Musica et Memoria
- http://www.decitre.fr/livres/la-musique-religieuse-en-france-du-concile-de-trente-a-1804-9782853570022.html La musique religieuse en France du Concile de Trente à 1804
