Émile Poillot
Émile André Poillot (French pronunciation: [emil ɑ̃dʁe pwajo]) (10 March 1886 – 22 June 1948) was a French pianist, organist, and pedagogue.
Émile Poillot was born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France, on 10 March 1886. He received his first musical training from his father, Jules Poillot, who has been playing the choir organ of the Saint-Michel church in Dijon during 54 years. In 1895 Émile Poillot joined the choir of the Dijon Cathedral, directed by the Reverend Father René Moissenet, whose brother and assistant, the Reverend Father Joseph Moissenet, gave him piano lessons and introduced him to play the organ. In 1900 he went to the Dijon Conservatory in Adolph Dietrich´s piano and harmony classes. He won a first prize in piano performance in 1901 and in harmony in 1902.
In October 1903, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied piano in Isidor Philipp’s class and received a first prize in piano performance under Philipp’s successor, Édouard Risler, in 1907. Then he studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne and received a first prize in organ performance and improvisation under Guilmant’s successor, Eugène Gigout, in 1911:
That year the great favorite was Émile Poillot. He had won his first prize in piano in Diémer’s [sic; actually Risler’s] class and his organ work foretold an unusually good competition – the prophecy was not wrong … Poillot, keen to emulate his predecessors, had held the school’s banner high.
Poillot also studied the history of music with Maurice Emmanuel.
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