In a sense, Anastasia Feruleva and Frank van de Laar revive this “Salon Boulanger” on their CD.Īround 1901 Lili Boulanger starts taking composition classes with Gabriel Fauré, where she meets not only Charles Koechlin, Florent Schmitt and Maurice Ravel, but also George Enescu.

Throughout their lives, the Boulanger sisters continue the family tradition of developing contacts with the artistic community, particularly after the sudden death of their father in April 1900. Only five years after her “Rome victory” Lili dies at the age of 24. At that time, chronic bronchial pneumonia and Crohn’s disease, from which Lili suffers from birth, are already at an advanced stage. Following in her father’s footsteps, Lili wins the renowned “Grand Prix de Rome” in 1913 in composition, the first woman ever to do so. While Nadia will go on to be remembered as an influential music teacher, her younger sister Lili will rise to prominence as a composer. The Boulanger siblings grow up in this environment. Friends of the family include Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet and Camille Saint-Saëns. The parental home is an open salon where actors, musicians, writers and painters meet.

Their mother, Raissa Myshetskaya, is a singer of Russian origin, their father Ernest Boulanger active as a composer. Nadia and Lili Boulanger are born into this family. Since the end of the 18th century, they have had a decisive influence on the cultural life of the French capital. This family of musicians enjoy an excellent reputation. A new era is dawning, with the Boulangers in the cultural forefront. Against the background of the First World War, in the capital of the “Grande Nation”, a new “Zeitgeist” is born, a new “Esprit du temps”.

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