Did Leonard Bernstein Study with Nadia Boulanger?

Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major US and European orchestras. Her roster of music students reads like the ultimate 20th Century Hall of Fame. Leonard Bernstein. ... All these musical giants, so different yet so groundbreaking in their own ways, studied with Boulanger.

Who studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger?

Nadia Boulanger, the French teacher of musical composition whose pupils included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, Elliott Carter, David Diamond and many other prominent American composers, died yesterday in her apartment in Paris after having been in coma for three weeks. She was 92 years old.

Who taught Nadia Boulanger?

Boulanger's family had been associated for two generations with the Paris Conservatory, where her father and first instructor, Ernest Boulanger, was a teacher of voice. She received her formal training there in 1897–1904, studying composition with Gabriel Fauré and organ with Charles-Marie Widor.

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