The Boulanger sisters grew up in a highly musical family; their father, Ernest Boulanger, was a composer who had won the Prix de Rome in 1835, and their mother, Raïssa Myschetsky Shuvalov, was an aspiring opera singer.
Album & Artwork
The album's cover art features 'The Boulevard Monmartre on a Winter Morning' (1897) by Camille Pissarro, a renowned Impressionist painter.
Composition History
Lili Boulanger's Thème et Variations for piano solo, an extremely dark work, was composed during World War I and reflects the global situation and her personal mood at the time.
Composer Biography
Lili Boulanger, a composer featured on this album, was the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, a French scholarship for arts students.
Recording & Production
The recording of tracks 6-13 on this album was made on a Grotrian Steinweg Grand piano from 1976, a year when Nadia Boulanger was still alive.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Nadia Boulanger, a composer and influential music pedagogue, believed that music, like life, is in perpetual evolution, with a ceaseless transformation between past, present, and future art.
Composer Biography
Nadia Boulanger, a composer on this album, became the most sought-after music pedagogue in the world, teaching prominent musicians like Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
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