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Music's modern muse : a life of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac / Sylvia Kahan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML429.P645 K34 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahan, Sylvia.
- Series:
- Eastman studies in music 1071-9989 ; v. 22.
- Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polignac, Winnaretta, princesse de, 1865-1943.
- Polignac, Winnaretta.
- Music patrons--France--Biography.
- Music patrons.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-525) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1580461336
- OCLC:
- 51781900
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