Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulangerwas a French composer, conductor, and teacher. She is notable for having taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century. She also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 September 1887
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
life time writing
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
children mean parenting
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
music done limits
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
study break
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
inspirational learning knowledge
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
sex jobs thinking
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
discipline
Without discipline, there can be no freedom.