Boulanger, Nadia Juliette (1887–1979)

French music teacher and conductor. She studied under Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatory, where she later taught, as well as at the École Normale de Musique and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. Many distinguished composers were her pupils, including her sister, Lili Boulanger, Lennox Berkeley, Aaron Copland, Jean Françaix, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, and Philip Glass.

She was the first woman to conduct the Royal Philharmonic, London, in 1937, and the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1938. After the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, she went to the USA, returning in 1946.

Works incidental music to d'Annunzio's La città morta (with Pugno; 1911); cantata La Sirène (1908); orchestral works; instrumental pieces, songs.