Baillot’s Published and Unpublished Writings: A Preliminary Catalogue
Highly educated, eloquent, and well-read, Baillot left copious published and unpublished writings.
1. Letters
Probably the most important segment of Baillot’s correspondence scattered between many public and private collections are the more than 170 letters to François Montbeillard, 1795–1842 available at bruzanemediabase.com. A complete, annotated and translated edition of these letters is long overdue.
2. Other Published and Unpublished Writings (in approximate chronological order)
Baillot n.d. = Théorie des accords. Ms. 14 pp.
Baillot n.d. = Baillot, Pierre (transcr.). Luigi Cherubini, Cours de composition. Ms. 159 pp.
Baillot n.d. = Baillot, Pierre (trans. from the Italian). Giovanni Battista Martini, Essai sur le contrepoint [Esemplare di contrappunto, Bologna, 1774–1775]. Ms. 53 pp.
Baillot n.s. = Baillot, Pierre (transcr.). Anton Reicha, Cours de composition [musicale]. Ms. 78 pp.
Baillot n.d. = Dialogue entre la Grosse Caisse et la sourdine [= Dialogue between the bass drum and the mute]. Ms.
Baillot 1798a (ms.) = Baillot, Pierre (transcr.). Contrepoint. Ms.. 57 pp.
Includes original material and translations of Johann Joseph Fux, Gradus ad Parnassum, 1725.
Baillot 1798b = Baillot et al. (Conservatoire professors). “Rapport” [= Endorsement], in: Cartier, L’Art du violon ou Collection dans les Sonates des Ecoles Italienne, Française et Allemande Paris: Decombe.
Baillot 1802 = Anon. [Baillot], ed. Recueil de pièces à opposer à divers libelles dirigés contre le Conservatoire de musique [= Collection of writings opposing diverse libelous statements, addressed/directed toward the Conservatory of Music]. Paris: P. Didot. 40 pp.
Baillot 1803 = Baillot, Pierre, Pierre Rode, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Méthode de violon. Paris: Ozi/Conservatoire 165 pages. Numerous reprints and several translations into English, German, and Italian.
Baillot was responsible for the examples and most lessons ($B2) as well as for editing the work.
Baillot 1805 (possibly: 1804) = Baillot, Pierre, Jean-Henri Levasseur, Charles-Simon Catel, and Charles-Nicolas Baudiot, eds. Méthode de Violoncelle et de Basse d'accompagnement [= Method for cello and accompanying bass]. Paris: Ozi/Conservatoire. 207 pp. Reprints and translations into English, German, and Russian.
Baillot was responsible for the most of examples and and some lessons ($B2) as well as for editing the work.
Baillot 1808 = Textes divers. Ms. 56 pp.
Poetic and philosophical writings.
Baillot 1811 = Rapport à S.[on] E.[excellence] le ministre de l’Intérieur sur l’orgue expressif, instrument inventé par M. Grenié, amateur, et exécuté sous sa direction [= Report to His Excellence the Minister of the Interior about the expressive organ, an instrument invented by Mr. Grenié, an amateur, and constructed under his direction]. Ms. 4 pp.
Praises the predecessor of the harmonium invented in 1810 by Gabriel Joseph Grenié (1756–1837).
Baillot 1812a = Voyage dans le midi de la France. Ms. and copy by Augustine Baillot. 51 pp.
Baillot 1812b = Rapport à son Excellence le ministre de l’Intérieur sur le nouveau chronomètre musical inventé par M. Despréaux [= Report to His Excellence the Minister of the Interior about the new musical chronometer invented by Mr. Despréaux]. Ms. 7 pp.
Baillot 1812–13 = Rapport à S.[on] E.[excellence] le ministre de l’Intérieur sur le violon sans barre inventé par M. Baud, amateur, et exécuté par lui-même [= Report to His Excellence the Minister of the Interior about the violin without bass bar invented by Mr. Baud, amateur, and constructed by himself]. Ms., 6 pp.
Baillot 1813a = Notice sur les travaux du Conservatoire impérial de musique et de déclamation, et sur les objets d'invention ou de perfectionnement qui ont été renvoyés à son examen. Pour l'année 1812. Ms. 17 pp.
Baillot 1813b = Baillot (transcr.). Luigi Cherubini, Leçons de contrepoint. Ms. 22 pp.
Baillot 1814a = Rapport sur le Conservatoire impériale pendant l'année 1813. Suivi de notes relatives à Jean-François Méon. Ms. 16+2 pp.
Baillot 1814b = Notice sur les membres du Conservatoire morts dans l'année 1813 (Jean-François Méon, Étienne Ozi, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry); examen fait par le Conservatoire de musique de divers instrumens qu'on a cherché à perfectionner, ou à créer, et rapports faits à ce sujet. Ms.
Baillot 1814–1840 = Documents pertaining to Baillot’s chamber-music concerts
Baillot 1815a–c = Listes d'élèves [= Lists of students]. Ms. 7 pp.
Lists of students, répétiteurs, and prize winners from 1796 to 1815.
Baillot [after 1817] = Notice sur ma famille. Ms. and copy by Augustine Baillot. 7 pp.
Baillot 1819 = Souvenirs des premières années de ma chere fille Colette. Ms. 4 pp.
Baillot 1820 = À la mémoire de Mme Bigot Ms. 10 pp.
Baillot 1821a = Liste des Personnes auxquelles j'ai donné des leçons de Violon. 7 pp.
Baillot 1821b = Liste des Personnes auxquelles j'ai donné des leçons de Piano. 5 pp.
Baillot 1822 = Three volumes of poetry. Ms.
Baillot 1823 = Souvenirs depuis ma naissance. 400+ pp
Baillot 1825 = Notice sur J.-B. Viotti, né en 1755 à Fontaneto, en Piémont, mort à Londres, le 3 mars [1824]. Ms. 16 pp.; publ. Paris: Hocquet.
Baillot 1826 = Dictionary article on Tartini (not yet identified; see François-Sappey 1978, p. 181).
Baillot 1827 = À la mémoire de Beethoven. Ms. 6 pp.
Baillot 1830 = À la mémoire de Catel. Publ. in Revue musicale 10 and separately in Hommage à la mémoire de Catel, Paris: Selligue. 15 pp.
Baillot [1834] = L’Art du violon: nouvelle méthode. Paris: Conservatoire de musique. 277 pp. Several reprints and translations into English and German.
According to Kubik and various library catalogues, the Method was published in 1834; according to Goldberg, it was published in 1835.
Baillot 1835 = Observations relatives aux concours de violon du Conservatoire de Musique [Observations about the violin competition at the Music Conservatory]. Publ. posth., Paris: Firmin Didot, 1872. 36 pp.
Baillot 1836 = Eulogy, given at Reicha’s funeral (not yet identified)
Baillot 1837–38 = “Concours de Violon du 5. Août 1837 et du 3. Août 1838. Essais.” Ms. charts.
Baillot, Pierre. 1839. “Caractère des divers instrumens de Musique.” Ms. 3 pp.
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Pierre Baillot (1771–1842)
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This website, initiated on occasion of the 250th anniversary of Baillot's birth in October 2021, is intended as guide to research, materials, and information. A more comprehensive publication on Baillot is in preparation.