Daniel Deffayet (May 23, 1922 – December 27, 2002) was a French classical saxophonist.
[1] Daniel Deffayet started studying music at the age of seven, and later entered the Paris conservatory where he studied the saxophone with Marcel Mule.
He became professor and worked with chamber orchestras under the direction (i.a.)
of Bernstein, Boulez, Cluytens, Doráti, Fricsay, Karajan, Kubelík, Leinsdorf, Maazel, Markevitch, Martinon, Monteux, Munch, Ozawa, Paray et Villa-Lobos.
He recorded several times with Herbert Von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.