Denise Launay
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Born7 October 1906
Paris
Died13 March 1993 (aged 86)
Paris
OccupationsOrganist
Musicologist
Musicologist
Denise Launay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 October 1906 Paris |
| Died | 13 March 1993 (aged 86) Paris |
| Occupations | Organist Musicologist |
Denise Launay (7 October 1906 – 13 March 1993) was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.
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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, alongside her father Paul Yvon, a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
