Since July, I have been concentrating solely on female composers. You can read about that in my post from July 19. If I can’t find one born on the calendar day, I won’t post. On with today’s composer.
Nadia Boulanger is probably the greatest music educator who ever lived. Among her pupils:
- Aaron Copland,
- Roy Harris,
- Quincy Jones,
- John Eliot Gardiner,
- Elliott Carter,
- Dinu Lipatti,
- Igor Markevitch,
- Virgil Thomson,
- David Diamond,
- İdil Biret,
- Daniel Barenboim,
- Philip Glass and
- Astor Piazzolla.
Her piece below was written in 1912 some 20 years before Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.” Let me know if you hear any similarities.
Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre