- Nadia Boulanger

 

 

 

 

Pays/Ville

Paris, France

Website: http://www.nadiaboulanger.org/

 

Details Personnels:

I, Nadia Boulanger was one of the most famous and influenced french composer as well as conductor. First, I began my career as a composer, but I thought teaching talented yonger children would be much more meaningful so I gave up on being a composer at age of 33 and started being a music teacher. Proudly, I have taught more than 1200 musicians, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thompson, and Walter Piston. I also won a few awards including Prix de Rome. This award especailly made me inspiring and motivated because I, Nadia, was the first woman to win this award!. I also visited United States and conducted a lot of different symphonies and orchasteras. I had more than a hundred concerts during my visit to United States. And of course, I have taught a huge number of American students, including Copland and Thompson as I mentioned earlier. But after a while, I reduced the number of conducting, performing, and lecturing, but I did not stop teaching young kids in my appartment in Paris, or should I say I couldn't. I could not resist my true intension, which was to teach my students all I know about music.

 

Date de Naissance:

16 Septembre 1887

Date de Mort:

22 Octobre, 1979

Sexe:

Female, femme

Croyances Politiques:

I support the monarchy by teaching younger children all about music.

Also by being Politics and royalist.

 

Croyances Religieuses:

Roman Catholic

 

Situation de Famille:

Grandmother - Marie-Julie Boulanger (singer)

Grandfather - Frederic Boulanger

Father - Ernest Boulanger (conductor, composer)

Mother - Raissa Myshetskaya

Sister - Marie Juliette

Enfants:

No enfants

En Cherchant:

Talented Students, composing songs, and conducting

Metier:

Composer, pianist, organist, composer

 

Interets/Loisirs:

• Playing Organ
• Composing music
• Studying Harmony
• Schoolmaster
• Piano

 

Accomplissements:

• I won Prix de Rome. I was the first woman to win this prize.

• I won Grand Prix du Disque

• I won Gold Medal, Academy of Beaux-Arts

• I won Legion of Honor

• I taught 1200 musicians

• I went to U.S to perform 26 concerts in 1925 and 40 concerts in 1938 including 60 lectures

• Head of department of music composition and theory
• I was the first woman to conduct Royal Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia orchestras
• I won Chevalier, Legion of Honor
• I won Order of Polonia Restituta,
• I won Master of the Chapel to the Prince of Monaco
• I won Howland Medal
• I won Grand Officer, Legion of Honor
• I won Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Education:

• Attended Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique de Paris 

 

Films Preferes:

I dont have any favorite movies. But I would like to watch Sound of Music. I heard this movie has such beautiful songs in it.

 

Musique Preferee:

I like Band, Orchastra, symphony and any other musical instruments.

 

Personnage que je voudrais rencontrer et pourquoi:

I want to meet my father, Ernest Boulanger. I loved him with all my heart, but he left this world so early. I had tons of questions I wanted to ask him about composing, conduction, and his music style.

 

 

Amis:

• Raoul Pugno
• Gabriel Faure
• Charles-Mari Widor
• Paul Vidor
• Louis Vierne

 

Sports

I don't play any sports

 

Citation Memorable:

"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so." - Nadia Boulange

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

• 1. I definitly influenced French culture to the world, including America. I have visited America for many times, in 1938, 1938, 1939, and 1940. Everytime I went there, I performed numerous concerts which were a huge success. I was even offered for some jobs there, but I had to refuse because of my mom's poor health.
• 2. I taught American students at the American Conservatory at Fountainebleau which is a summer school for American musicians established by the French in appreciation for U.S. military aid during World War I. At this school, I educated the two most celebrated American students, Copland and Virgil Thompson. Not only them, I also taught famous American classsical composer Walter Pistons, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Rumanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, American blues artist Roy Harris, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, pianist Noel Lee, Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, and French composer and pianist Jean Francaix. Beside at Conservatory at Fountainebleau, I taught at Conservatoire Nationale and several universities and music schools in the United State where I conducted, lectured, and taught my American students.
• 3. My great skills were internationally known and in worldwide demand. I was the first woman to conduct the Royal Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia orchestras. Besides these, I also conducted hundreds of orchastra and symphony in United States and I was perhaps the most respected French conductor in America.

 

Notes:

This is me performing a concert in 1968. Thank you for supporting me.

by Nadia Boulanger.

 

 

 

Resources:

 

Nadia Boulanger.  (Online image) Available <http://website.lineone.net/~matthew.brailsford/helen_crayford/hcblngr.htm>. june 3, 2008

 

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

"Nadia Boulanger." Contemporary Musicians, Volume 56. Thomson Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

Nadia Boulanger 1968 (Online video) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU9yFXuDh9w>

 

 

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