Mediating modern music: Nadia Boulanger constructs Igor Stravinsky

Beginning in the 1920s, Nadia Boulanger promoted Igor Stravinsky unceasingly, serving as cultural mediator between the Russian master and the general public until her death in 1979. Fuelling this passion was an hitherto undocumented creative exchange between Boulanger and Stravinsky that lasted over forty years. Beginning in 1929, Stravinsky sent his son, Soulima, to Boulanger for his musical education, and by 1930, the composer started exchanging autograph scores with her. In 1931, they engaged in their first project together: the editorial revision of the piano/vocal reduction for the Symphony of Psalms. This exchange led to their extra-compositional collaboration on numerous other projects, including the Symphony in C, Stravinsky's Mass, and his opera, The Rake's Progress. Drawing on newly-discovered correspondence, scores, and analytical materials, this dissertation offers for the first time a detailed and nuanced account of how these two figures existed in a symbiotic relationship.Doctor of Philosoph