Louis Andlauer

Louis Andlauer (7 September 1876^[1]^[2]^[3] – 18 July 1915)^[2] was a French composer and organist.

Biography

Born in Honfleur, the son of Auguste Andlauer, (pupil of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs [fr],^[4]^[5]) Louis Andlauer won a First prize of organ in the classes of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in 1901.^[1] Louis Andlauer wrote organ and harmonium pieces, three masses, a cantata, religious motets and several songs.

Organist and director of music at the Parisian church of Saint-Éloi,^[5] he was also a substitute for Louis Vierne from 1912 to 1914 at the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris. During the Great War he became a sergeant in the 28th Régiment d'infanterie territoriale [fr], and was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil (Pas-de-Calais).^[2]

(in French) Biographical notes in Joseph Joubert, Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue, Paris, Senart, 1912, vol. 1, (p. 1)

^ ^a ^b Anne Bongrain (2012). Le Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation 1900-1930. Documents historiques et administratifs (in French). Paris: Vrin. p. 469. ISBN 978-2-7116-2398-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c "ANDLAUER Louis Marie François, 17-09-1876 - Visionneuse - Mémoire des Hommes". www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 November 2017.
^ The Bibliothèque nationale de France mentions "1875-1915" BnF 160168852 and the notes in Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue give "1877" (Joseph Joubert (abbot) (1912). Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue (PDF) (in French). Paris: Senart. p. vol. 1, p. 1.).
^ Joseph Joubert (1912). Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue (PDF) (in French). Paris: Senart. p. vol. 1, p. 1.
^ ^a ^b Rollin Smith (1999). Louis Vierne, Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral. New-York: Pendragon Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1576471791.

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