Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon

by Kimberly A Francis

In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the cultural work of the other until the composer's death in 1971.

Teaching Stravinsky tells Boulanger's story of the ever-changing nature of her fractious relationship with Stravinksy. Author Kimberly A. Francis explores how Boulanger's own professional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199373698
• ISBN13: 9780199373697
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"