Composed: 1917-18
Premiered: 1921, Paris
Duration: 5 minutes

Despite a life cut short at 24 due to a terminal illness, Lili Boulanger had already made a name for herself as a composer by the time she wrote D'un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning). She was the first woman to ever win the Prix de Rome composition prize in 1913 at the age of 19, and composed 24 works between 1911 and her death in 1918.

Boulanger began composing D'un matin de printemps in the spring of 1917 alongside another short piece, D’un Soir triste (Of a Sad Evening), as a duet for violin and piano, but in early 1918, just months before her death, she expanded it for orchestra. It is a shift in tone from many of her more somber, reverent works, and has a vibrant, joyful charm.