Élisabeth Brasseur

Élisabeth Brasseur (8 January 1896 – 23 November 1972) was a French choral conductor.

Marie Josèphe Jeanne Élisabeth Brasseur was born in Verdun[1] in Lorraine, from Jean Marie Joseph Brasseur, transport entrepreneur, and Marguerite Maria Grosjean.

It is from the maternal side that the taste for music came to her, since her grandfather Ernest Grosjean was organist of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Verdun.

[3] With Pierre Dervaux, she directed the Chœur du Conservatoire de Paris in a production of Dido and Æneas by Henry Purcell at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1960, which was recorded on disc.

[4] For her long contribution to choral music, the city of Versailles, where she remained until her death on 23 November 1972, aged 77, named a place in her honour, Place Élisabeth-Brasseur, where the Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc church is located, where she founded her first choir.