Guillaume André Villoteau

Guillaume André Villoteau (19 September 1759[1] in Bellême – 27 April 1839 in Tours) was a French musicologist.

An ambulant musician, engaged in the dragons, Villoteau then integrated the mastery of Notre Dame de Paris on the eve of the French Revolution.

He left the orders and entered the Paris Opera during the Reign of Terror where he became conductor of the choir.

He started from scratch and could not rely on any music score: his interlocutors benefited only from an oral transmission.

[3] On his return to France, he retired in 1809 to his property of the Mazerais, a commune of Savonnières, where he became mayor from 1813 to 1815.