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Lili Boulanger
12+ albums
frenchClassicalcomposer20th Century ClassicalImpressionist
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Lili Boulanger (Marie-Juliette Olga Lili Boulanger, 21 August 1893–15 March 1918) was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. A child prodigy, Boulanger's talent was apparent even at the age of two, spotted by her parents, both of whom were musicians themselves and encouraged their daughter's musical education. (Her mother, Raissa Myshetskaya (Mischetzky), was a Russian princess, who married her Paris Conservatoire teacher, Ernest Boulanger; grandfather Frédéric Boulanger had been a noted cellist, and grandmother Juliette a singer.) Boulanger accompanied the ten-year-old Nadia to classes at the Paris Conservatoire before she was five, shortly thereafter sitting in on classes on music theory and studying organ with Louis Vierne; she also sang and played piano, violin, cello, and harp. In 1913, at the age of 19, she won the Prix de Rome for her Faust et Hélène, becoming the first woman composer to win the prize; Nadia had given up entering after four unsuccessful attempts and had focused her efforts upon guiding her sister. Lili, first a student of Nadia and then of Paul Vidal, Georges Caussade, and Gabriel Fauré —the last of which who was greatly impressed by the young woman's talents and frequently brought songs for her to read— was greatly affected by the 1899 death of her father; many of her works touch on themes of grief and loss. Her work was noted for its colorful harmony and instrumentation and skillful text
top songs
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Nocturne
15,5852Trois morceaux pour piano: II. D'un jardin clair
14,2063D'un vieux jardin
7,8404D'un jardin clair
7,5245D'un matin de printemps
5,8426Nocturne (arr. for violin and harp, from Two pieces for violin and piano)
5,6617Prélude en Ré b/Des
2,27583 Morceaux: No. 2, D'un jardin clair
2,0569D'un soir triste
1,54310Pie Jesu
1,486albums
BOULANGER, Lili and Nadia: In Memoriam Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne
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D'un jardin clair
Lili Boulanger: Hymne au Soleil. Chorwerke
Boulanger: Faust et Hélène
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Beau Soir
Boulanger, L.: Psalms - 24, 129, 130 / Pour Les Funerailles D'Un Soldat / D'Un Soir Triste / Vieille Priere Bouddhique
Boulanger, L.: Psalm 24 / Faust Et Helene / D'Un Soir Triste / D'Un Matin De Printemps / Psalm 130
Lili
Boulanger: Hymne au soleil
Boulanger, L.: Les Melodies
Deux Morceaux: I. Nocturne (Arr. for Cello & Piano by Julian Riem)