Beautiful musical correspondence from Daniel-Lesur.

A beautiful musical correspondence, evoking his favorite music. “I always return to Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Bach, Ravel. I almost forgot Monteverdi! It's a very simplistic view... but you understand that I'm always drawn to the greatest melodists rather than the rhetoricians (all things being equal). A long, beautiful phrase, carried to its conclusion, melts my heart.” “I am indebted to, and an heir to, the French musical tradition from the trouvères and troubadours to Ravel, by way of Nicolas de Grigny, Couperin, Berlioz, my teacher Tournemine, and Debussy. But at the same time, I am particularly attached to Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Mussorgsky, and Stravinsky. I believe they all contributed to my development as a musician. None of them, in any case, has ever ceased to delight me. My God, I had forgotten Mozart!” And especially Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni! He also mentions contemporary music, Messiaen and the Jeune France group, his students Ohana, Nigg, etc.