Denise Launay

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Denise Launay (7 October 1906 – 13 March 1993) was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.

Denise Launay
Born	7 October 1906 Paris
Died	13 March 1993(1993-03-13) (aged 86) Paris
Occupation(s)	Organist 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 Montfort-l'Amaury Cemetery [fr], 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.