Louis Andlauer

Louis Andlauer was a French composer and organist.

Biography

Born in Honfleur, the son of Auguste Andlauer, Louis Andlauer won a First prize of organ in the classes of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in 1901. 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, 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, and was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil.