NADIA BOULANGER (1887-1979)

Paris born composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger was one of the most staggling personalities of the century,. She studied at the Conservatoire (1897--1904), where she won several prizes, and went on to write many vocal and instrumental works, winning second prize at the Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for her cantata, La Sirène (The Siren). After 1918 she devoted herself to teaching, first at home, and later at the Conservatoire and the Ecole Normale de Musique, where she had international influence.

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