Gabriel Charles Bouillon (5 March 1898 – 1984) was a French classical violinist and music pedagogue.

Biography

Gabriel Charles Bouillon was born March 5, 1898, in

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...

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. Bouillon comes from a family of musicians. His brother

Jo Bouillon Joseph Bouillon (3 May 1908 – 9 July 1984) was a French composer, conductor and violinist. As Joséphine Baker's fourth husband, he enjoyed prominence in the 1950s. Biography Bouillon's father and his brother Gabriel were musicologists, respe ...

was

Josephine Baker Freda Josephine Baker (; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to s ...

's fourth husband. He studied in his hometown and with

Jacques Thibaud Jacques Thibaud (; 27 September 18801 September 1953) was a French violinist. Biography Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won th ...

in Paris. After that he taught

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at the

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. Among his pupils were

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, ,

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and

Suna Kan Suna Kan (21 October 1936 – 11 June 2023) was a Turkish violinist who studied in France and appeared internationally. She was a soloist and concert master of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra for 44 years. She was professor of violin at th ...

. He visited the retired composer

Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20t ...

three weeks before his death in Argentina and reported to the weekly newspaper ''Le Littéraire'' after his return to France about the unfinished oratorio '' Atlántida''. The manuscript was later completed by the Spanish composer

Ernesto Halffter Ernesto Halffter Escriche (16 January 19055 July 1989) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter and part of the ''Grupo de los Ocho'' (), which formed a sub-set of the ''Generation of '27''. Early years Ernes ...

. Bouillon established his own

string quartet The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two Violin, violini ...

in the 1930s. He died in

in 1984.

Bibliography

* Ludvig Ernst Bramsen: ''Musikkens hvem hvad hvor. Biografier'', Vol 1, Politikens håndbøger - Politikens musikbibliotek, Politikens forlag, 1961 * Angela Hughes: ''Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape with Figures'',''Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape with Figures''
(WorldCat) , Ashgate, 1998

References

External links

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Gabriel Bouillon, Beethoven's Quartet No. 10 in E flat major Op.74 in 1940
(YouTube)
Quatuor Gabriel Bouillon
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