Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur was a French composer, organist and choral conductor active from the 1930s, whose career focused on classical, sacred and choral music. His output ranged from liturgical choral pieces to chamber and organ works, employing modal and chromatic techniques often informed by Gregorian chant and mid-20th-century French modernist currents, and he contributed to the renewal of French sacred and choral repertoire.