Pierre Baillot
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Emerging from modest beginnings in Passy near Paris, he received his first violin instruction from an Italian teacher named Polidori, continued under the French pedagogue Sainte-Marie, and later refined his technique with Giovanni Battista Viotti, whose concerto he heard as a child and whose style shaped his playing. After a brief stint in the French finance ministry and military service, he retur…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
