Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger (September 16, 1887 - October 22, 1979) was an influential composer, conductor, and music professor. She taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century.Her grandmother was the singer Juliette Boulanger. Her father, Ernest Boulanger, was a professor at the Paris Conservatory of Music. Her sister, Lili Boulanger, was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.
Nadia was the first woman to conduct several major symphony orchestras, including New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
She became a professor at the American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleau in 1921, and eventually became its director in 1950.
Musical figures who studied under her include:
- Daniel Barenboim
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Marc Blitzstein
- Elliott Carter
- David Conte
- Aaron Copland
- Clifford Curzon
- David Diamond
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Philip Glass
- Roy Harris
- Quincy Jones
- Wojciech Kilar
- Dinu Lipatti
- Douglas Stuart Moore
- Astor Piazzolla
- Walter Piston
- Harold Shapero
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Charles Strouse
- Henryk Szeryng
- Virgil Thomson
- David Ward-Steinman
- Egberto Gismonti