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, France.
Bouillon comes from a family of musicians. His brother Jo Bouillon was Josephine Baker's fourth husband.Bennetta Jules-Rosette: Josephine Baker in Art and Life. The Icon and the Image. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2007, , . He studied in his hometown and with Jacques Thibaud in Paris. After that he taught violin at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his pupils were Henryk Szeryng, , Horst Sannemüller, Charles Chaynes, Jean-Pierre Wallez and Suna Kan.
He visited the retired composer Manuel de Falla 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.Ernst Thomas: Der neue Musikbericht. Eine Auswahl aus 100 Sendungen des Westdeutschen Rundfunks 1961–1966. Pressestelle des WDR, Köln 1967, . The manuscript was later completed by the Spanish composer Ernesto Halffter.
Bouillon established his own string quartet in the 1930s. He died in Montpellier in 1984.
Bibliography Ludvig Ernst Bramsen: Musikkens hvem hvad hvor. Biografier,Musikkens hvem hvad hvor. Biografier (WorldCat) 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
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Gabriel Bouillon, Beethoven's Quartet No. 10 in E flat major Op.74 in 1940 (YouTube) Quatuor Gabriel Bouillon (Discogs)