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About Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a 19th-century French musician and teacher. Juliette Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony

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“Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.”
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“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
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“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
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“A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.”
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“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”
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“It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.”
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