Canon André Aurat (1929 / 1945)

Truth be told, no task would have discouraged this untiring worker – no matter how hard. He gathered the ancient works collected by his predecessor and greatly expanded them by way of his own personal contributions. But above all, he classified them in an exemplary manner. Seniors still recall his cardboard boxes, meticulously ordered in the cupboards with labels stuck thereon that indicated the works’ names, written with a magnificent “round” handwriting. Those cardboard boxes have been used for decades. In order to increase the influence of the Choir and to better support it, Canon Aurat took the initiative of creating an association named “The Choir’s Friends”, whose moral and financial support was far from being negligible. On March 12th 1945, Canon Aurat gave a lecture in Monaco about “the part choir singing could play in education”. Soon after, the first signs of an illness that would eventually take him away appeared and despite all treatments, he died in Paris on August 5th 1945.


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