[2] He succeeded his father Jean-Louis Boisselot in the manufacture of pianos in 1847,[3] a business continued by successive generations of his family until the late nineteenth century.
The collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar include around fifty historical musical instruments.
A highlight is the grand piano from the Boisselot & Fils workshop (Marseille 1846),[4] which was given to Franz Liszt as a gift and on which the compositions of the Weimar years were created.
Liszt expressed his devotion to this instrument in his letter to Xavier Boisselot in 1862: “Although the keys are nearly worn through by the battles fought upon them by the music of the past, present and future, I will never agree to change it, and have resolved to keep it until the end of my days, as a favoured work associate”.
[5] Paul McNulty was chosen by Klassik Stiftung Weimar to make a copy of Liszt’s personal Boisselot 1846 piano.