Cellier studied organ with
Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908, he won the first prize for organ at the
Conservatoire de Paris. Before that, he also studied with
Henri Dallier and
Charles-Marie Widor. He was the organist Titulaire of the Temple de l'Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968. The organ he used was a 3-manual
Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32
stops, which was extended by Mutin (Cavaillé-Coll) in 1914.
In
Louis Vierne's biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a "cultivated musician" with improvisation skills. He gave concerts abroad.[citation needed]
He wrote a book about
organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach
Chorales.
Selected compositions
Orchestral
Paysages cévenols (1912)
Sur la colline d’Uzès (1928)
Le chant d’une flûte (1930)
Chacun son tour, Suite humoristique for wind soloists and string orchestra (1934)