Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger

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Title

Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger

Subject

Romanticism
Arranging
Violin music

Description

This manuscript of Lili Boulanger's 1914 violin-piano duet Cortège is an arrangement by her sister Nadia for solo violin and chamber orchestra. The full score is in Nadia’s hand; the parts are partly autograph, and partly in a copyist’s hand. While there is no solo violin part, markings in the score indicate it may have been used by the soloist.

Geolocation: The Boulangers' family home in Paris, where Nadia lived her whole life.

Creator

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918

Source

Lili Boulanger. Cortège. Arranged by Nadia Boulanger. (19--).
Merritt Room Mus 631.856.200

Date

Cortège composed in 1914; toured in different arrangement by U.S. by Nadia Boulanger in 1925; acquired in 2014

Relation

"Yolanda Bruno (Violin) and Isabelle David (Piano) - Lili Boulanger: Cortège," the violin-piano version of the piece (YouTube)

Harvard Music Library collections related to Nadia Boulanger: scores by Boulanger's students; various American music scores collected by Boulanger; and Boulanger's letters to the Chanler and Pickman families

A 1962 profile on Nadia Boulanger in the Harvard Crimson

Format

Autograph full score (plus individual instruments' parts partly in autograph, partly in a copyist's hand)

Files

Collection

Classical Music

Citation

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979 and Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918, “Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger,” Treasures of the Loeb Music Library, accessed August 8, 2026, https://treasures.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/9.