Nadia Boulanger
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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NADIA BOULANGER
TEACHER, COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR
On September 16, 1887, Nadia Boulanger was brought into this world in Paris, France with joy after a miscarriage her parents had a couple years before.
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Boulanger had a father named Ernest Boulanger (who also wrote music) and a mother named Raissa Suvalov.
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6 years later, Nadia became a big sister for Lili Boulanger, who was born on August 21, 1893.
Boulanger went to college at the Paris Conservatory at age 10. Nadia was smart in school and studied harmony and composition. She also studied organ privately. One of her musical influences, might have been her dad.
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Nadia Boulanger is most known for playing and composing for organ, cello, and piano.
During Boulanger's composing career, she composed opera (La ville morte), song cycle (Les heures claires), piano, and orchestra. But, Boulanger mostly composed for solo singer and piano, solo instruments, and orchestra.
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In 1918, Lili died of Crohn's disease around 24 or 25 years old. After Lili's death, Nadia Boulanger abandoned composition was one interesting fact I learned which resulted in Nadia beginning her music teaching career.
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Another interesting fact I learned was that Nadia broke a lot of gender barriers because in that time it was said that women were not capable of doing what men could do.
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Boulanger also led Stravinsky's world premiere "Dumbarton Oaks Concerto" in 1938.
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Nadia Boulanger was also the first woman to lead London's Royal Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and orchestra's in Boston and Philadelphia.
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During Boulanger's teaching career, she taught many other famous composers like Aaron Copland, Lennox Berkeley, Easley Blackwood, Marc Blitzstein, Elliot Carter, Jean Françaix, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, and Virgil Thompson.
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HeRE ARE SOME OF NADIA BOULANGAR'S COMPOSITION'S
- Fantaise pour piano et orchestre- https://youtu.be/_TVON0HwRCI
- Prelude in F Minor- https://youtu.be/T12qCU-ZEp4
- Chanson- https://youtu.be/XYYyGUPaPU0
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I liked Prelude in F Minor by Nadia Boulanger because written in 1911, it sounds like it could be played in a church. It was written for solo organ, and it has many different notes and pitches that I like.
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Nadia Boulanger died on October 22, 1979 at the age of 92.
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