Canon André Aurat (1929 / 1945)
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Born in 1881, in the Berry county, André Aurat studied in Bourges and later in Paris where he graduated with a three years’ diploma in history eagerly pursuing to improve his musical knowledge all the while. Back in his native Berry and ordained a Priest, he taught history in the small seminary of Issoudun, while managing the local high school’s choir. He took part to the performance of great classical works in the Cathedral of Bourges, where a considerable number of singers gave the line to two organs and an orchestra.
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Canon André Aurat
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Canon Aurat had such a reputation that no one was surprised when he was chosen as head of the Monaco’s Choir to succeed to Monseigneur Perruchot. He devoted himself ever since exclusively to music.
Thus, on each Sunday or celebration day, a first class liturgical office was performed in the Cathedral as it had been before. No matter how painful the war years were, they never interrupted this intense activity.
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