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.

• Colles, Volume I, pp. 196-7

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