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Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger
French composer
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Elsa Barraine
Elsa Barraine
French composer (b. 1910)
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Robert D. Levin
Robert D. Levin
American musician
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Louise Talma
Louise Talma
American composer
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
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Noël Lee
Noël Lee
American musician
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Irving Fine
Irving Fine
American composer
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Marcelle de Manziarly
Marcelle de Manziarly
French composer
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Louis Vierne
Louis Vierne
French organist and composer
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Jules Mazellier
Jules Mazellier
French composer and conductor
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Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave
Scottish composer
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
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Yvonne Desportes
Yvonne Desportes
composer
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
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Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch
Ukrainian conductor and composer
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Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
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Manuel Rosenthal
Manuel Rosenthal
French composer and conductor
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David Diamond
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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Jeanne Leleu
Jeanne Leleu
French composer
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Ambroise Thomas
Ambroise Thomas
French composer
Nadia Boulanger
French musician and teacher

Nadia Boulanger

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French musician and teacher
Awards Received
Prix de Rome
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
Howland Memorial Prize
Order of the British Empire
Order of Saint-Charles
Order of the Crown
AAAS Fellow
Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Union of Polish Composers

Union of Polish Composers

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French: [ʒy.ljɛt na.dja bu.lɑ̃.ʒe]; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.

From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Conservatoire de Paris but, believing that she had no particular talent as a composer, she gave up 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 those who became leading composers, soloists, arrangers, and conductors, including Grażyna Bacewicz, Burt Bacharach, Daniel Barenboim, Lennox Berkeley, İdil Biret, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, and Virgil Thomson.

Boulanger taught in the US and England, working with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, but her principal base for most of her life was her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92.

Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony, Hallé, Philadelphia orchestras. She conducted several world premieres, including works by Copland and Stravinsky.