Gabriel Bouillon

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Gabriel Georges Bouillon (born March 5, 1898 in Montpellier , † 1984 ) was a French violinist and violin teacher .

Life

Bouillon comes from a family of musicians. His brother was Jo Bouillon , the husband of Josephine Baker . He studied in his hometown and with Jacques Thibaud in Paris. He then taught violin at the Conservatoire de Paris . Henryk Szeryng , Erkki Kantola , Horst Sannemüller , Charles Chaynes and Suna Kan were among his students .

He visited the withdrawn composer Manuel de Falla three weeks before his death in Argentina and reported to the weekly newspaper Le Litteraire on his return to France about the unfinished oratorio Atlántida . The manuscript was later completed by Ernesto Halffter .

literature

  • Ludvig Ernst Bramsen (Ed.): Musikkens hvem hvad hvor. Biography , Volume 1, Politikens håndbøger - Politikens musikbibliotek, Politikens forlag, 1961
  • Angela Hughes: Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape with Figures, page 24, Ashgate, 1998 ISBN 1-85928-422-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bennetta Jules-Rosette: Josephine Baker in Art and Life. The Icon and the Image . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2007, ISBN 0-252-03157-1 , p. 197.
  2. ^ Ernst Thomas: The new music report. A selection from 100 broadcasts on West German Radio 1961–1966 . WDR press office, Cologne 1967, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Bouillon, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouillon, Gabriel Georges (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist and violin teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH 1984