Composer (1887-1979) who studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1897 to 1904, where she won several prizes. She went on to write many vocal and instrumental works, winning second prize at the Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for her cantata, La Sirène (The Siren). After 1918 she devoted herself to teaching, first at home, and later at the Conservatoire and the Ecole Normale de Musique, where she had international influence. TLS, one onionskin page, 8.25 x 10.75, Ecoles d'Art Americaines letterhead, October 2, 1974. Letter to Mrs. Barbara Saul Jacobson. In full: "How kind of you to have written—I was so sorry to have missed your visit and be unable to express my deception. Feel I do remember and want to hope that another meeting is not only a dream." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, a candid snapshot of Boulanger from 1972, and a hardcover copy of her biography Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music.
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