var s_account="msnportalencartauk"; MSN Home Hotmail My MSN Sign in ... more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Auctions Cars Entertainment Environment ... More Additional Reference Thesaurus Bilingual Dictionaries Sidebar Primary Resources Homework Resources Foreign Language Help Times Archive Literature Guides ... Project Starters Support Encarta Products Encarta Answers Encarta Worldwide Help Related Items Blitzstein, Marc more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Boulanger, Nadia Juliette Boulanger, Nadia Juliette Encyclopedia Article Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail Boulanger, Nadia Juliette (1887-1979), French teacher, composer, and conductor, who influenced many distinguished composers, particularly from the United States. Born in Paris, she studied under the French composer Gabriel Faur© . In 1918 she stopped composing, after the death of her sister Lili Boulanger , who was also a gifted composer. Boulanger taught privately and at the Paris Conservatoire (1909-1924 and after 1946), at the cole Normale de Musique, Paris (1920-1939), and at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau (beginning in 1921; director, 1949). During World War II she taught at various US colleges. Her students include the American composers Marc Blitzstein Elliott Carter Aaron Copland David Diamond ... Roger Sessions , and Virgil Thomson , the French composers Jean Fran§aix, Pierre Henry Michel Legrand , and Darius Milhaud , the Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks , the South African composer Priaulx Rainier , the Argentine composer | |
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