Nadia Boulanger (September 16 , 1887 – October 22 , 1979 ) was an influential composer , conductor , and music professor. She taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century.
Ancestors
Nadia Boulanger's grandmother was the singer
Juliette Boulanger . Her grandfather,
Frédérick Boulanger won first prize in violoncello in his fifth year (1797) at the recently founded
Paris Conservatoire . Her father,
Ernest Boulanger , later studied at the same conservatory (his teachers included
Charles-Valentin Alkan ), and won the
Prix de Rome in
1835 . He later taught there, where he met Nadia's mother, the Russian Princess,
Raissa Myshetskaya .
Biography
Nadia Boulanger's emotional life was largely centered around her love for her sister,
Lili Boulanger , who was six years younger. Lili was one of Nadia's first composition students, and it was largely under her guidance that Lili became the first woman ever to win the Prix de Rome, in 1913.
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