Nadia Boulanger. A Life in Music

A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music. Nadia Boulanger's life spanned nearly a century, and at her death she was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously influential, she taught many distinguished performers and composers -- among them Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Elliott Carter. She helped American music gain worldwide recognition. For this first full biography, Leonie Rosenstiel has drawn on papers and records to which Boulanger gave her unprecedented access and also on numerous interviews. The result is a rich portrait of an important woman of our time.

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Acknowledgments
I. A Montmartre family
II. "What a strange little girl we have!"
III. The two sisters
IV. Pupils, prizes, and Pugno
V. The closed doors
VI. Des femmes compositeurs
VII. Entrances and exits
VIII. The Great War
IX. Old friends and new faces
X. Branching out
XI. The wonderful, new experiment
XII. The teacher
XIII. Words on music
XIV. Strengthening the image
XV. High priestess of music
XVI. In the shadow of mama
XVII. The Monteverdi revival and other matters
XVIII. The first of her sex
XIX. The American years
XX. At the Conservatoire
XXI. "A diamond is also nice"
XXII. A patchwork of activity
XXIII. Coda

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