Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac
(Part of the Eastman Studies in Music Series)
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A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette. The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Her 1893 marriage to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1580463339
ISBN13:9781580463331
Release Date:July 2009
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Length:572 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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