Pierre Camonin
Pierre Camonin (25 February 1903 – 14 November 2003) was a French organist, composer and improviser. Biography. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Camonin was a student of Marcel Ciampi for the piano at the conservatoire de Paris. He studied pipe organ with Louis Vierne and Marcel Dupré. He was ordained a priest in 1929. He was a vicar-organist at Ligny-en-Barrois, then organist in charge of the great organs of the Verdun Cathedral (where he succeeded Ernest Grosjean) alongside the maître de chapelle, canon Ferdinand Tourte. Its titulariate extended from 1935 until his death. Vincent Warnier was  appointed co-titular in 1997. Several substitutes (Mr. Géhin, Vialette in the 1970s) generally provided the low masses. Among the students of Canon Pierre Camonin who made a career as organist is Dominique Bréda (born in 1956), organist at St Léon in Nancy. Pierre Camonin died in Verdun, Meuse.