Resultado da Busca
Princesse Edmond de Polignac. The Queen of Paris’s Lesbian Community! On her wedding night, the heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune climbed atop an armoire armed with an umbrella and told the groom “I am going to kill you if you come near me!”. Winnaretta Singer had married Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard to gain access to ...
12 de out. de 2018 · Le 12 octobre 2018 par Jean-Christophe Le Toquin. La biographie de la richissime Winaretta Singer (1865-1943), devenue Princesse Edmond de Polignac, est une somme impressionnante consacrée à une figure essentielle de l'élite musicale parisienne – et par là européenne – de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Sylvia Kahan dresse un ...
Jeanne A. Ojala , Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Singer, Winnaretta (1865–1943)American-born artist, musician, and patron of the arts who established the Fondation Singer-Polignac. Name variations: Princess Edmond de Polignac; Princesse de Polignac; Princess Winnie; Princess de Scey ...
Edmond and Venice. Edmond de Polignac loved Venice and visited the city in 1900 with his wife, the great musical patroness, Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. After a luncheon given at the Palazzo Barbaro by the Bostonian banker Daniel Curtis and his wife, Ariana, Edmond was standing on the Barbaro balcony, overlooking the Grand Canal.
Há 3 dias · Sa vie. Publié dans Winnaretta Singer-Polignac. Winnaretta Eugénie Singer naquit à Yonker (New York), le 8 janvier 1865. Son père était Isaac Merritt Singer, l’industriel américain qui perfectionna la machine à coudre. Il épousa une très jeune Française, Isabelle Eugénie Boyer.
In the event, Winnaretta accepted the dedication and became one of the most passionate supporters or Ravel’s music. The Pavane sounded in various concerts organized by Winnaretta, and it was also performed at Edmond de Polignac’s funeral in 1901. Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, (Maurice Ravel, piano)
For more information about this remarkable woman please see Sylvia Kahan’s book Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. It brings her to life. 1) Kahan, 2009, p.345 from the blog by Stella Di Virgilio 2) Princess Polignac memoirs (Polignac, 1945, p.133) blog by Stella Di Virgilio. Stravinsky Oedipus rex
