Volume 29, Number 9 · May 27, 1982
La Grande Mademoiselle
By Robert Craft
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music
by Léonie Rosenstiel
Norton, 427 pp., $24.95
Why does Nadia Boulanger merit a full-length, popular-style biography when she was neither a composer of significance nor, after her youth, a virtuoso performer? The reasons for her continuing interest to both musicians and lay persons are her preeminence as a teacher and her place as the first female pioneer in the propagation of modern music. In the present period of women's liberation, she has won a high place in the pantheon.
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