François Lesure
François Lesure | |
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Lesure, circa 1990 | |
| Born | 23 May 1923 Paris, France |
| Died | 21 June 2001 (aged 78) Paris, France |
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François Lesure (23 May 1923 – 21 June 2001) was a French musicologist and librarian. He specialized in the life and works of Claude Debussy, but also wrote numerous bibliographies, studies in the sociology of music, and historical French topics. Lesure was long-associated with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where he was initially a music curator and later head of the music department.