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Lili Boulanger
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| Lili Boulanger was born in France on 21 August, 1893. She began her music studies very early, and one of the highlights of her life was being able to sing songs by Gabriel Fauré, with that elder composer himself at the piano.She began taking lessons in various aspects of music from Fauré, Caussade, Vidal, and her own sister Nadia Boulanger.Lili Boulanger made a noted place in music history by being the first woman to win the Prix de Rome; it was in 1913, and her piece was her cantata "Faust et Hélène". At the age of fifteen, she wrote one of her more popular works, a nocturne for violin and piano, and in June of 1914 she wrote her Thème et Variations for piano. Boulanger seemed to realise that her life would be very short, and her music is almost always gripped by a grey, grave quality. What are usually considered her most important works came in the years 1916 and 1917: Psaume XXIV (1916), Psaume CXXIX (1916), Psaume CXXX (1916), and Veille prière bouddhique (1917). Too sick to write, she dictated her final work to her sister, Nadis, a Pie Jesu, during the first weeks of 1918. On 15 March of that year, Lili Boulanger passed away at the age of twenty-four, a victim of Crohn’s Disease.
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