Born in Paris, Aug 21, 1893
Died in Mézy, March 15, 1918
- Marie-Juliette Olga “Lili” Boulanger was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome for composition (1913).
- She was the younger sister of composition pedagogue and conductor Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979).
- Lili Boulanger suffered from chronic ill health, dying in 1918 at age of 24.
- Boulanger’s compositions include songs, chamber music, choral works.
- Boulanger was deeply affected by living through the First World War. Many of Boulanger’s works deal with themes of war or prayers for peace.1
- Together, Lili and Nadia Boulanger organized a charity to help musicians who had become WWI veterans.2
Short biography from Naxos
Sources
- Annegret Fauser and Robert Orledge, “Boulanger, (Marie-Juliette Olga) Lili,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 8, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003704.
- Léonie Rosenthiel, Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music (New York: Norton, 1982), 128.