Introduction

Biography

Boillot stu­died vio­lin un­der Gio­van­ni Bat­tis­ta Vi­ot­ti.

He taught vio­lin at the Pa­ris Con­ser­va­toire and, with Pi­erre Rode (al­so a pu­pil of Vi­ot­ti) and Rodolphe Kreutzer, wrote the con­ser­va­to­ry’s of­fi­cial vio­lin me­thod (pub­lished in the ear­ly 19th Cen­tu­ry).

Baillot was sole au­thor of the in­struc­tion­al L’art du violon (1834). His teach­ings had a pro­found in­flu­ence on tech­ni­cal and mu­sic­al de­ve­lop­ment in an age in which vir­tu­os­ity was open­ly en­cour­aged.

He led the Pa­ris Op­era, gave so­lo re­cit­als, and was a not­able per­form­er of cham­ber mu­sic.