Music's modern muse : a life of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac / Sylvia Kahan.

• Prelude -- An international child -- Life with mother -- A woman of the world -- The sewing machine and the lyre -- Marriage and music -- La belle époque -- Renovations -- Modern times -- The astonishing years -- Shelter from the storm -- The magic of everyday things -- Cottages of the elite, palaces of the people -- A pride of protégés -- Mademoiselle -- All music is modern -- The beautiful kingdom of sounds -- Postlude.

• The American-born Winnaretta Singer was a millionaire at eighteen, inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. She became a patron of musicians, companies and composers. Those she supported included Boulanger, Rubinstein, Horowitz, the Ballets russes, Stravinsky, Falla, Satie and Poulenc. 

Ämnesord

Musik  (sao)

Mecenater  -- Franrike -- 1900-talet (sao)

Music patrons  -- France -- Biography (LCSH)

Salongsmusik  -- Franrike -- 1900-talet

Music  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Polignac, Winnaretta, princesse de, 1865-1943

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Ijb-j.47 Musikhistoria: Frankrike: högromantiken och senromantiken ca 1820-1900

Ijb-j.5 Musikhistoria: Frankrike: 1905-

Klassifikation

ML429.P645 (LCC)

780/.92 (DDC)

Lz Polignac, Winnaretta (kssb/7)

Ijb-j.47 (kssb/7)

Ijb-j.5 (kssb/7)