Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French: [ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑ̃ʒe] (listen); 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Conservatoire de Paris but, believing that she had no particular talent as a composer, she gave up writing music and became a teacher. In that capacity, she influenced generations of young composers, especially those from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were many important composers, soloists, arrangers, and conductors, including Grażyna Bacewicz, Daniel Barenboim, Lennox Berkeley, İdil Biret, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, Virgil Thomson, and George Walker. Boulanger taught in the U.S. and England, working with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, but her principal base for most of her life was her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92. Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony, Hallé, and Philadelphia orchestras. She conducted several world premieres, including works by Copland and Stravinsky. |
Birth and Death Data: Born September 16, 1887 (9th arrondissement of Paris), Died October 22, 1979 (9th arrondissement of Paris)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1929 - 1930
Roles Represented in DAHR: piano, composer
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia (U.K.) | WL1841 | 10-in. | 10/10/1929 | Piece en ut diese mineur no. 3 | Maurice Faure ; Maurice Maréchal | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL2056 | 10-in. | between February 6 and 28 1930 | Nocturne | Yvonne Astruc ; Nadia Boulanger | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, piano | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL2076 | 10-in. | 3/1/1930 | Introduction et cortège | Yvonne Astruc ; Nadia Boulanger | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, piano |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Boulanger, Nadia," accessed November 5, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/363006.
Boulanger, Nadia. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 5, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/363006.
"Boulanger, Nadia." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Boulanger, Nadia - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81125320
Wikidata: Nadia Boulanger - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q140619
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/61731139
MusicBrainz: Nadia Boulanger - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b84d7c94-d171-4257-a57a-48dc5425323b
ISNI: 0000 0001 1027 9883 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000110279883
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