Links
- www.bnf.fr
BN-Opaline, collections of the Music Department
and the Audio-visuel Department.
The Music Department of the National Library of France
is, since 1980, the principal depositary of the Nadia Boulanger collection.
Musical manuscripts, with dedication or not are, are assembled,
original editions, corrected proofs, autograph letters and writings.
This collection contains invaluable archives of Nadia Boulanger,
of Lili Boulanger and of other members of the family.
The Audiovisuel Department of the National Library of France
assembles recordings having belonged to Nadia Boulanger:
seventy eight RPM's, thirty three RPM's and tapes.
- www.cnsmd-lyon.fr
The Nadia Boulanger Media-Library of the Conservatoire
national supérieur de musique de Lyon bears the name of Nadia Boulanger following
the donation which was made, in 1980, of the library of the great musician.
One will find on the site entire collection on line, as well as ties with other institutions
agents of the Boulanger collection:
- the Music Department of the National Library of France
- the Audiovisuel Department of the National Library of France
- the Aaron Copland collection of the Library of Congress in New York
- the Harvard University Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
- www.cite-musique.fr
The Musée de la Musique à Paris
is, since 1981, owner after donation of the objects, the furniture, the musical
instruments, the art works, the books and the scores constituting the complete
contents of Nadia Boulanger's two music salons, located in the apartment,
where had lived since 1904, at 36 rue Ballu in the 9th district of Paris.
The collection has been photographed and will be very soon visible on a data base
at the Media-Library of the Museum.
- www.durand-salabert-eschig.com
The works of Lili Boulanger (orchestral works, vocal and
instrumental music, chamber music) are published by Durand since 1920.
They are available commercially, by sale or by rental.
Six Songs of Nadia Boulanger are published by Ricordi Milan (the publisher which is
part of the same group today as Durand, Eschig and Salabert):
J'ai frappé (J.-F. Bourguignon), Chanson (C. Mauclair), Le Couteau (C. Mauclair),
Doute (C. Mauclair), Au bord de la route (C. Mauclair).
- www.alphonseleduc.com
The editions Alphonse Leduc, owner of the Hamelle collection,
have just published a volume of Songs of Nadia Boulanger which was no longer available:
Soleils couchants (P. Verlaine), Elégie (A. Samain),
Prière (H. Bataille), Cantique (M. Maeterlinck),
Versailles (A. Samain), Chanson (G. Delaquys), Soir
d’hiver (N. Boulanger).
The cycle of Songs of Nadia Boulanger and Raoul Pugno, Les Heures claires (E. Verhaeren),
is published by Heugel, now part of the Leduc catalogue.
- www.nadiaboulanger.org
The American Music Research Center of Colorado
University (Boulder) organised, from the 7 to 9 October 2004,
the first International Symposium on the topic of the influence of Nadia Boulanger
on the development of the American music. Conferences and concerts.
- www.academie-villecroze.com
The Musical Academy of Villecroze
exists since 1989, thanks to the initiative of Anne Gruner-Schlumberger.
The Academy encourages the development of talented young musicians and it is for
this reason that it is partner of the International Contest of Song-Piano
Nadia and Lili Boulanger.
To commemorate the twenty-five years of the disappearance of Nadia Boulanger,
the Academy invited the International Foundation Nadia and Lili Boulanger to
co-organize a conference devoted to Nadia and Lili Boulanger,
from 20 to October 24, 2004.
- www.fontainebleauschools.org
Nadia Boulanger was associated right from the start, in 1921,
with the international activity of the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau
where she taught every summer until the year of her death in 1979.
Master Classes and concerts were organised there for a multidue of American
students to come to study near the great « Mademoiselle ».
- www.ffcm.info
The Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Song-Piano contest is a member
founder of the newly-formed French Federation of Music Contests.
Created in order to reinforce the action and visibility of music contests for
candidates as well as for institutions and the media, the F.F.C.M. is a place of
counsel and exchange of information.
- www.megep.net
The Association “Musicians between War and Peace” has the aim
to preserve, to develop and to exploit the literary and artistic inheritance,
in its richness and its diversity, left by artists who lived during World War I.
For this reason, the works of Nadia and Lili Boulanger as well as their action
within the Franco-American Committee of the Paris Conservatory are exemplary.