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
study break
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty
liberty obedience great-work
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
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[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
music understanding solitude
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.
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It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.
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The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
art likes chains
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
profound feelings enemy
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.