Lili Boulanger - In memoriam Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger - In memoriam Lili Boulanger
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 299 Mb
Label: Naxos - Date: 1993
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 299 Mb
Label: Naxos - Date: 1993
Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger was born into a musical family. Her grandfather was a cellist, her grandmother a famous soprano (Marie-Julie Boulanger, née Hallinger), her father a composer who had won the Prix de Rome in 1835. Her mother, Countess Raissa Myshetskaya, was a professional singer, and her sister was Nadia Boulanger, who became famous as a teacher, particularly to a generation of American composers.
Lili, as she was called, suffered a nearly fatal case of pneumonia when she was two years old. Although she survived, it would appear that her immune system was compromised, for she was a frequent sufferer from various illnesses. She was deeply attached to her father, who had been 77 years old when she was born. Inevitably, he died when she was young, only six years old. The family was closely involved in Parisian musical life; Fauré was a frequent house guest.
Their mother gave both sisters beginning music lessons, but they went on to study with eminent musicians. Lili took lessons from the great harpists Marcel Tournier and Alphonse Hasselmans, and also studied violin, cello, and piano. At the age of 16 she began studying composition. Her primary teachers were Georges Caussade and Paul Vidal. She made such progress that her elder sister, Nadia, realized she could not match her talent, and changed her career to teaching. Lili was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in 1912. In May of that year she entered the famous Prix de Rome competition for composers, but she fell ill during the strenuous period of composition and had to withdraw. That year no one gained first prize. When she competed again in 1913, she became the first woman to win the coveted prize, being named co-winner with Claude Delvincourt (two prizes were available, counting the one left over from 1912). Her winning composition was a cantata, Faust et Hélène.
Measles prevented her from traveling immediately to Rome, but she arrived there in the middle of March, 1914. She faced the hostility of the director of the French Academy there, Albert Besnard, who was sure the mere presence of a woman among the residents would destroy discipline. She returned to France for a family vacation in July, and remained in France when World War I broke out, in order to give what help she could to the war effort. Back in Rome in 1916, she began work on an opera, La Princesse Maleine, based on a play by Maeterlinck. It is said that she identified with the lonely heroine. She returned to Paris due to illness, then returned to her family home in Mézy and died there in March, 1918.
Her music stands in the main line of French music exemplified by Fauré. It is somewhat tinged with the influence of Debussy's Impressionism, and is generally beautiful, delicately colored, and touching. There can be little doubt that the world lost a potentially great composer with her passing. Her substantial compositions include a psalm setting, Du fond de l'abime, and another cantata, Hymn de Soleil.
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Tracks:
01. Thème et Variations [0:10:54.25]
Lili Boulanger (piano solo)
02. D'un matin de printemps [0:04:55.72]
Lili Boulanger (violon et piano)
03. Nocturne [0:03:03.03]
Lili Boulanger (violon et piano)
04. Cortège [0:01:43.00]
Lili Boulanger (violon et piano)
05. Clairières dans le ciel - Elle était descendue [0:02:12.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
06. Clairières dans le ciel - Si tout ceci [0:02:16.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
07. Clairières dans le ciel - Nous nous aimerons [0:02:33.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
08. Clairières dans le ciel - Demain, fera un an [0:07:59.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
09. D'un vieux jardin [0:03:30.00]
Lili Boulanger (piano solo)
10. D'un jardin clair [0:02:29.00]
Lili Boulanger (piano solo)
11. Dans l'immense tristesse [0:05:14.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
12. Le retour [0:05:21.00]
Lili Boulanger (voix et piano)
13. Pie Jesu [0:04:17.72]
Lili Boulanger (voix, harpe, orgue et quatuor à cordes)
14. Lux aeterna [0:02:06.03]
Nadia Boulanger (voix, harpe, violon et violoncelle)
15. Pièce pour violoncelle et piano en Mi bémol mineur [0:02:58.72]
Nadia Boulanger
16. Pièce pour violoncelle et piano en do dièze mineur [0:02:47.03]
Nadia Boulanger
17. Le couteau [0:01:33.00]
Nadia Boulanger (voix et piano)
18. Vers la vie nouvelle [0:04:37.00]
Nadia Boulanger (piano solo)
19. In memoriam Lili Boulanger [0:04:01.70]
Emile Naoumoff (basson et piano)
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