Denise Launay

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.

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, Société française de musicologie et Éditions Klincksieck, Paris, , 583 p.