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1887 Birth of French music composition teacher Nadia BOULANGER in Paris. In USA from 1940. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, in 1945 she became professor there. Boulanger taught at the École normale de Musique, Paris, and in 1921, at the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, as director in 1950. Teacher of American composers Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein and many others. Her sister Lily (1893–1918) was a distinguished composer. See Remembrance. d-Paris, 22 OCT 1979.
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