Born in Paris in 1893, died in Mézy-sur-Seine in 1918; Lili Boulanger was a composer from a family of musicians and the younger sister of Nadia Boulanger. From 1909 she studied at the Paris Conservatoire, among others with Georges Caussade and Paul Vidal (composition), and in 1913, with the cantata “Faust et Hélène”, became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome for composition. Despite a chronic illness present since early childhood, of which she died at the age of 24, some 50 works came into being, among them settings of Psalms 24, 129 and 130 (Psaume 130), “Vieille prière bouddhique”, the song cycle “Clairières dans le ciel” after poems by Francis Jammes, “D’un soir triste” and “D’un matin de printemps” as well as the Pie Jesu. On the Cybele album French Women Composers (2011) she is represented as a composer.
Lili Boulanger
Composer
