Lili Boulanger Programme on Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Karla was a guest in Elisabeth Hahn´s wonderful programme about Lili Boulanger – listen to the programme here: Deutschlandfunk Kultur

.

When Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win France´s coveted „Prix de Rome“, died in 1918 at the age of only 24, she left behind a good fifty compositions. Extraordinary talent and crippling illness: Lili Boulanger´s life moved between these poles. At the age of 19, she was the first woman to win the coveted „Prix de Rome“ – only five years later, in 1918, she died. Boulanger´s creative power made her the first woman to win the coveted „Prix de Rome“ in France, which is all the more astonishing as she had to wrestle her work from a very fragile health. Later, she was even called the „greatest composer in the history of music“.