Denise Launay

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

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.