What is Nadia Boulanger?
{{Infobox musical artist|Name=Juliette Nadia Boulanger|birth_place=[[Paris|Paris, France]]|birth_date=16 September 1887|death_date={{Death-date and age| 22 October 1979 | 16 September 1887 }}|Occupation=Teacher and conductor|image=Nadia Boulanger 1925.jpg|caption=Nadia Boulanger in 1925}} '''Juliette Nadia Boulanger''' ({{IPA-fr|ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑ̃ʒe|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Nadia Boulanger.wav}}; 16 September 1887{{Spaced en dash}}22 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. She grew up in a musical family. Her first success was when she was at the [[Conservatoire de Paris]]. She believed, that she had no talent as a composer, she gave up that path. She became a teacher instead. As a teacher, she had a large influence on many young copmosers of the 20th century. Most of them were from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were people who later became important composers, soloists, arrangers and conductors. Some of them were Grażyna Bacewicz, [[Burt Bacharach]], [[Daniel Barenboim]], Lennox Berkeley, İdil Biret, [[Elliott Carter]], [[Aaron Copland]], John Eliot Gardiner, [[Philip Glass]], Roy Harris, [[Quincy Jones]], Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, [[Ástor Piazzolla|Astor Piazzolla]], and Virgil Thomson. Boulanger taught in the US and England. She worked with music academies including the [[Juilliard School]], the [[Yehudi Menuhin School]], the Longy School, the [[Royal College of Music]] and the [[Royal Academy of Music]]. For most of her life, she was in her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92. Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra|BBC Symphony]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]], [[The Hallé|Hallé]], and [[Philadelphia Orchestra