Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulangerwas a French composer, conductor, and teacher. She is notable for having taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century. She also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 September 1887
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
study break
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
tradition habit adore
I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
boredom boring
There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.
profound feelings enemy
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.