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Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) 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
• Aaron Copland
• Clifford Curzon
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Philip Glass
• Roy Harris
• Quincy Jones
• Dinu Lipatti
• Douglas Stuart Moore
• Walter Piston
• Harold Shapero
• Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
• Henryk Szeryng
• Virgil Thompson
• David Ward-Steinman

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