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Nadia Boulanger
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Nadia Boulanger was a French musician, conductor, and teacher who lived from 1887 to 1979. She is significant in music history, though the specific reasons for her importance are not detailed in the provided information.
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Described at
Musée SACEM : Nadia Boulanger
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Juliette
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- 9th arrondissement of Paris
- Father
- Ernest Boulanger
- Sibling
- Lili Boulanger
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Employer
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- André Gedalge
- Genre
- classical music
- Movement
- classical music
- Instrument
- organ
- Record label
- EMI
- Image
- Nadia Boulanger 1925 colorized.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- place of burial
- Montmartre Cemetery
- Commons category
- Nadia Boulanger
- date of birth
- 1887-09-16
- date of death
- 1979-10-22
- name in native language
- Nadia Boulanger
- described at URL
- musee.sacem.fr/index.php/Detail/entities/1073
- birth name
- Juliette Nadia Boulanger
- P8168
- Wellenkuppe
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Nadia Boulanger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Juliette Nadia Boulanger ( French: [ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑ̃ʒe] ; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
Born into a musical family (her father Ernest and sister Lili were acclaimed composers), Boulanger entered the Conservatoire de Paris at an early age but, believing that she lacked particular compositional talent, she forsook 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, Charles Fox, David Diamond, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, Julia Perry, George Walker, and over 250 others.
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