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 melodies.
Organist and Kapellmeister of Saint-Éloi, he was substitute for Louis Vierne from 1912 to 1914 at the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris.
A fourrier sergeant in the during the First World War, he was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil.