nadia boulanger

Vers la vie Nouvelle (1918)

LE COUTEAU (1922)

three pieces(1914)

Nadia boulanger was born in september 16,1887
and died in october 22,1979.
She received training from her father and first instructor Ernest boulanger, which he was a teacher of voice in 1897–1904

Nadia Boulanger's first song was Extase,(for voice & piano)
made in 1901 (i cannot find anything else on the internet). while in the summer of 1921
nadia Boulanger was a teacher in the French Music School for Americans opened in Fontainebleau which one of her students was Aaron Copland.

After Lili Boulanger’s death in march 15,1918 by Crohn's disease, nadia boulanger said that every piece she wrote was useless and threw them out after that she was very sad

FUN FACTS ABOUT NADIA BOULANGER

• Nadia Boulanger lived though ww1 and ww2
• In 1937, she was the first woman to conduct the Royal Philharmonic
• broke the gender barrier with almost every other major orchestra

Nadia Boulanger wrote Music in the 20th century era and influenced many teachers in the 20th century you can say she was a very important person.and a very odd one too

When Nadia Boulanger was born when she heard music she would hide until it was over or cry,but after her sister was born she heard a fire bell and rushed to the piano and played and tried to reproduce the sounds.her parents were astonished.
After this she stared listening to her parent lessons.

Nadia Boulangers parents were
Ernest Boulanger and Raissa Myshetskaya
Ernest is a conductor and pianist his wife Raissa Is a Russian princess and is now considered a home toutor to Nadia and Lili Boulanger.

According to Ernest, Raissa And Ernest met in 1873 and she followed him back in Paris.she was in his music class in 1867 then they got married in 1878
Ernst was 72 when they had Nadia Boulanger

NADIA BOULANGER FAMOUS QUOTES

• “A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty”
• “The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
• “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

I could not find how Nadia Boulanger died but I found this:
Her eyesight and hearing fading away towards the end of her life on August 13 1977 in advance on her 90th birthday she was given a surprise birthday celebration at Fontainebleau's English Garden. The school's chef had made a large cake, on which was inscribed: "1887–Happy Birthday to you, Nadia Boulanger–Fontainebleau, 1977". When the cake was served, 90 small white candles floating on the pond . Boulanger's then protege, Emile Naoumoff, performed a piece he had composed for the celebration .Boulanger worked almost until her death in 1979 in Paris.She is buried at the Montmartre Cemetery, as is her sister Lili

These are the people she taught: Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Elliott Carter, David Diamond, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, İdil Biret, Daniel Barenboim, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Lalo Schifrin, Astor Piazzolla, Quincy Jones, and Michel Legrand

i have found this info at:

• Britannica.com
• bach-cantatas.com
• Wikipedia.com
• Biography.com