Lili Boulanger - Prélude en Ré♭ (1912)

Composer: Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (August 21, 1893 – March 15 , 1918)
Pianist: Moisès Fernández Via

Note: the manuscript does not have any performance indications, so they must be implemented by the performer.
This was re-uploaded because of a typo...

[stacey_rh]

This woman set a bar that no one even knew about. What an enigma. She was a friggin genius composer

[MrThesamster]

What a mysterious composer. Wish she lived a longer life.

[trappaskunk]

goddamn masterpiece. makes me wonder why in all my years of schooling her name never came up even once. each piece i've come across since i first heard her name has blown me away. i hope her work gains a wider audience.

[stephenjablonsky]

She died a hundred years ago and her genius is still gifting us after all this time. This young lady certainly had composition chops. This piece is magical. Yes, we wish she had lived longer...and so did she.

[philnewberry]

I discovered Lili by specifically searching for compositions created during WW1. Hard to believe this divine music and that horrifying war happened in the same universe or dimension, let alone in the same era. Inconceivable.

[mr.hashundredsofprivatepla]

Lili Boulanger was living proof of ‘quality over quantity’

[jeffrican]

To think she only composed this when she was 19. If she hadn't have died so young, imagine what she could have done.

[ziriyab]

Beautiful.
It's amazing just how wide the interval of a tone seems by the end of this

[Nemicompo]

I played this piece in one of my piano recitals. I really enjoyed playing Boulanger’s piece.

[pilouetmissiou]

Makes me imagine a meteore passing near our planet for a very few minutes and going away in the deep dark for ever ....this piece is strongly evocative...a masterpiece

[korisnthere]

This is beautiful. Absolutely stunning.

[fourtreemouths]

gorgeous piece of music I'd be completely ignorant of if it weren't for this upload. Thanks!

[johannesbrahms]

This work and all others from her are far beyond---- "TOP RATE"!!!!
They give me such pure, lofty, all--embracing delight!!!!
Please, continue showing us her and her sister's, Nadia's videos!!!!
Thank You, to You Tube, and, all involved in the production!!!!

[Choristenimes]

C'est magnifique...à pleurer ! Merveilleuse musicienne Lili, disparue à 22 ans....

[michaeledwards]

This is incredibly remote, rarefied music, almost of another world. Sort of Debussyan, yet not at all Debussyan.
I wish she had written more piano music (only 4 piano works that I know of: the 3 Morceaux (counting that as a single work), the Theme and Variations, and Preludes in Db major and B major (the last of which I just found out about today).

[rossanopinelli]

Fantastic piece, this woman was a genius.

[ondinehd]

Interesting harmonies... dreamy, mysterious. Reminds of some late Scriabin, and of course Debussy, Ravel.

[gerardbegni]

An extraordinary harmonic invention. This is mysteriously beautiful. What a paity to have lost her prematurely.

[RimshotsandNamaste]

Omg!!
How come this isn't more known!?!
It's so good!!

[angejmurphy]

She lived her whole life with illness and died at 24 but throughout created such gorgeous sounds. What a gift to the world!