NadiaBoulanger

Nadia Boulanger’s influence as a teacher and conductor can obscure the music she wrote herself. Trained at the Paris Conservatoire, she composed songs, instrumental works and music for larger forces before concentrating on performance and education in the early 1920s. Her students and professional connections reached far beyond France, particularly through the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. She also devoted sustained attention to the work of her younger sister Lili. Returning to Nadia’s own scores offers a different encounter: an artist whose early creative practice deserves to be heard alongside the extraordinary musical life she helped others build.