{"id":93176,"date":"2023-09-04T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/discover\/composers\/lili-boulanger\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:16:57","slug":"lili-boulanger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/discover\/composers\/lili-boulanger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prodigy who saw the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mari-Juliette Olga Boulanger was born in Paris in 1893 into a musical family with a noble Russian mother and a French father. The mother taught both Lili, who had absolute hearing, and older sister Nadia. Already as a child, Lili Boulanger got to know the Parisian musical life led by the composer Gabriel Faur\u00e9, a friend of the family and a great inspiration. At the age of 16, she began studying composition with teachers such as Georges Caussade and Paul Vidal. <\/span><\/p>\n

She was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 19 in 1912 and that same year entered the famous Prix de Rome competition for composers, but fell ill and had to withdraw. Competing again in 1913, she won by a landslide in the jury’s vote, becoming the first woman to win the coveted prize. Her winning composition was the one-act opera Faust et H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, a love drama for three voices with Wagnerian elements and perfect orchestration.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the age of 20, Lili Boulanger was on the verge of a flourishing career as a composer. But fate wanted otherwise. As a teenager, she had suffered from Crohn’s disease, an intestinal disease that at the time was impossible to treat. She was tormented by severe bouts of illness, but nevertheless continued to compose.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After her scholarship stay in Rome, WW1 broke out and she remained with her family in Paris. In 1916 she was able to return to Rome and then began to work on the opera La Princesse Madeleine. She would never finish the opera. She was without a future, just like the young French men of the same age who fought in the First World War and who came to be called “A Lost Generation”.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mari-Juliette Olga Boulanger was born in Paris in 1893 into a musical family with a noble Russian mother and a French father. The mother taught both Lili, who had absolute hearing, and older sister Nadia. Already as a child, Lili Boulanger got to know the Parisian musical life led by the composer Gabriel Faur\u00e9, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":65452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/standard-large-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 18:18:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109007,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93176\/revisions\/109007"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}