Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Synopsis

French organist and composer

• 1908 born in Paris to Alice Thiboust, who was a composer and pupil of Tournemire. She gave him his first composition and organ lessons.
• 1919–29 studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and piano at the Paris Conservatory.
• 1935 he was appointed professor of counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum, where he remained until 1964.
• 1936 Daniel-Lesur was, with Messiaen, Jolivet and Baudrier, a founder-member of the group La Jeune France, dedicated to a ‘return to the human’ and opposed to the neo-classicism then prevailing in Paris. Messiaen remained a life-long friend.
• 1937-1944 organist of the Benedictine Abbey of Paris.
• 1939 began "a long and varied association with French radio" (Oxford Music online).
• 1953 composed his most famous work, an a cappella choral work entitled "Le Cantique des Cantiques," a setting for 12 voices of parts of the Song of Songs, interspersed with Latin verses and New Testament texts.
• 2002 died in Paris.

For details, see the wikipedia article [1].

A biography can be found at Oxford Music online: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/07175?q=Lesur&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

List of Organ Works

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Opus	Title	Year
Op. ??	Scène de la Passion	1931
Op. ??	La vie intérieure	1932
Op. ??	Hymnes, volume 1	1935
Op. ??	Hymnes, volume 2	1937
Op. ??	Title	year
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From Oxford Music online:

"Daniel-Lesur’s music stands apart from that of his more famed contemporaries in La Jeune France, being more conventional in texture, rhythmically more regular, and more directly diatonic. Its modal shading probably comes less from his colleagues’ influence than from his respect for Tournemire and his interest in folk music."

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