The melody is composed of sopranos and tenors but a soloist baritone can sing the second verse. Georges Allard was born in Paris, and he is an engineer in École centrale de Lyon and has a career in management control and microcomputing. When he studied in Lyon, he discovered À Coeur Joie and was part of La Psallette de Lyon supervised by César Geoffray. Then he created Saint-Ferdinand des Ternes’s choir in 1952 in Paris and Contrepoint’s choir in 1987 in Pecq (near Saint-Germain-en-Laye the place he lives in) of which he is the choirmaster. He has been introduced to harmony by César Geoffray and has learned to notate thanks to Marcel Corneloup, he never went to the conservatory. He makes horizontal musical writing his first choice before vertical one and has a pronounced taste for “canons.”
