Lili Boulanger, Frammenti ritrovati di una vita interrotta
| Edition | Fiorella Sassanelli |
| Publisher | Cafagna Editore |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Pages | 384 |
On July 5, 1913, Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome. The event caused a sensation, not only because of the composer’s youth (she was only 19) but also because, with a strategy as simple as it was determined, she broke the male monopoly on composition. Her path was unusual in other ways too: serious health problems had prevented her from studying regularly at the Conservatoire, and this success was the fruit of barely three and a half years of private lessons.
In 1918, Lili Boulanger succumbed to illness, having completed songs for voice and piano as well as a small number of significant works for piano, for chamber ensemble, and for orchestra with chorus, which bear witness to the richness of her inner world.
This Italian-language account of her artistic and personal journey is enriched here, for the first time, by a substantial body of correspondence, presented alongside the original French text. These letters come from a suitcase of documents that Nadia Boulanger’s heirs had carefully preserved, forbidding it to be opened until December 2011.
