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Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French: [ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑ̃ʒe] ⓘ; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
Frédéric Boulanger (paternal grandfather) Marie-Juliette Olga " Lili " Boulanger (French: [maʁi ʒyljɛt lili bulɑ̃ʒe] ⓘ; 21 August 1893 – 15 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. [1] Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks.It includes only composers of significant fame and importance.
Glenn Herbert Gould[fn 1] (/ ɡuːld /; né Gold; [fn 2] 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, [1] renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical ...
In 1964, Glass received a Fulbright Scholarship; his studies in Paris with the eminent composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, from autumn of 1964 to summer of 1966, influenced his work throughout his life, as the composer admitted in 1979: "The composers I studied with Boulanger are the people I still think about most—Bach and Mozart." [28]
Jean-Louis Haguenauer (born 1954) is a French classical pianist. Biography ... Lili Boulanger Composition prize; Laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, 1983;
Originally composed as a duet for violin and piano, from the spring of 1917 the work was adapted as a trio version for violin, cello, and piano in 1917, and as a duet for flute and piano in the same year. In January 1918, Boulanger wrote an orchestral version. [1] D'un matin de printemps was the last orchestral work composed by Boulanger before ...
Aaron Copland. Aaron Copland (/ ˈkoʊplənd /, KOHP-lənd; [1][2] November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Composers". The open, slowly changing harmonies ...