Boulanger, Nadia

From 1920 to 1939, Boulanger taught harmony, counterpoint, and music history at the Ecole Normale de Musique. She also became a professor of the Conservatoire Américain at Fontainebleau in 1921, succeeding Robert Casadesus 29 years later as its director. Her courses filled so quickly that enrolment had to be limited. Students who attended her studio at the Rue Ballu in Paris were taught to analyse and criticise all types of music, revered or not. Some of her better known pupils included...