Nadia Boulanger A Life in Music [Paperback]

Nadia Boulanger's life spanned nearly a century, and at her death she was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously influential, she taught many distinguished performers and composersamong them Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Elliott Carter. She helped American music gain worldwide recognition.A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.