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Winnaretta Singer

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Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (8 January 186526 November 1943), was an American-born heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. [1]

84 relations: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Adela Maddison, Alvilde Lees-Milne, American Civil War, Annulment, Antonio de La Gándara, Armande de Polignac, Arthur Rubinstein, Avant-garde music, Édouard Manet, Ballets Russes, Catholic Church, Clara Haskil, Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, Colette, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Poulenc), Consuelo Vanderbilt, Consummation, Daisy Fellowes, Darius Milhaud, Dinu Lipatti, Edward VII, El retablo de maese Pedro, Emmanuel Chabrier, Erik Satie, Ethel Smyth, Florida, Francis Poulenc, Franco-Prussian War, Gabriel Fauré, Gay, Germaine Tailleferre, Hamish Hamilton, Harpsichord, Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Singer, Isabella Eugénie Boyer, Isadora Duncan, James Lees-Milne, James Ross (conductor), Jean Cocteau, Jean Françaix, Jean, duc Decazes, Kurt Weill, Lavender marriage, Le Corbusier, Lesbian, London, Manuel de Falla, ..., Marcel Proust, Mariage blanc, Marie Curie, Maurice Ravel, Mortimer Singer, Nadia Boulanger, Oldway Mansion, Olga de Meyer, Orchestre symphonique de Paris, Organ Concerto (Poulenc), Paignton, Palm Beach, Florida, Paris, Paris Opera, Patronage, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Prince Edmond de Polignac, Public housing, Renard (Stravinsky), Renata Borgatti, Romaine Brooks, Salon (gathering), Sergei Diaghilev, Singer Corporation, Socrate, The Salvation Army, University of Exeter, Vincent d'Indy, Violet Trefusis, Vladimir Horowitz, Wanda Landowska, Wardrobe, Washington Singer, Yonkers, New York. Expand index (34 more) »

Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society.

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Adela Maddison

Katharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal (15 December 1862 – 12 June 1929), usually known as Adela Maddison, was a British composer of operas, ballets, instrumental music and songs.

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Alvilde Lees-Milne

Alvilde Lees-Milne (née Bridges; formerly Viscountess Chaplin) (1909–1994) was a British gardening and landscape expert.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Annulment

Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.

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Antonio de La Gándara

Antonio de La Gándara (16 December 186130 June 1917) was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman.

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Armande de Polignac

Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French painter.

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Clara Haskil

Clara Haskil (7 January 1895 – 7 December 1960) was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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Colette

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

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Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Poulenc)

Francis Poulenc's Concerto pour deux pianos (Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra) in D minor, FP 61, was commissioned by and dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac and composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932.

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Consuelo Vanderbilt

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.

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Consummation

In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged romantic attraction.

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Daisy Fellowes

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Dinu Lipatti

Dinu Constantin Lipatti (2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from causes related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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El retablo de maese Pedro

(Master Peter's Puppet Show) is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, composed by Manuel de Falla to a Spanish libretto based on an episode from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Emmanuel Chabrier

Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (January 18, 1841September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (to rhyme with Forsyth; 22 April 18588 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Germaine Tailleferre

Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre (19 April 18927 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic 'Seumas', James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman.

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Isabella Eugénie Boyer

Isabella Eugenie Boyer (17 Dec 1841 - 12 May 1904) was a French model.

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Isadora Duncan

Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe.

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James Lees-Milne

(George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973.

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James Ross (conductor)

James Ross is a British conductor and author.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jean Françaix

Jean René Désiré Françaix (23 May 1912 in Le Mans – 25 September 1997 in Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.

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Jean, duc Decazes

Jean-Élie-Octave-Louis-Sévère-Amanien Decazes de Glücksbierg, 3rd Duc Decazes and 3rd Hertig af Glücksbierg (April 30, 1864 – August 31, 1912), was a French aristocrat and sportsman.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Lavender marriage

A lavender marriage is a male-female marriage in which one or both of the partners is homosexual, pansexual or bisexual.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Mariage blanc

Mariage blanc (from the French, literally "white marriage") is a marriage that is without consummation.

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Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie (born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 18674 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Mortimer Singer

Sir Adam Mortimer Singer, KBE, JP (25 July 1863 – 24 June 1929) was an Anglo-American landowner, philanthropist, and sportsman, who was one of the earliest pilots in both France and the United Kingdom.

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Oldway Mansion

Oldway Mansion is a large house and gardens in Paignton, Devon, England.

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Olga de Meyer

Olga, the Baroness de Meyer (8 August 1871 – 6 January 1931) was a British-born artists' model, socialite, patron of the arts, writer, and fashion figure of the early 20th century.

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Orchestre symphonique de Paris

The Orchestra Symphonique de Paris (Symphonic Orchestra of Paris) was an orchestra principally active in Paris from 1928 to 1939.

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Organ Concerto (Poulenc)

The Concerto pour orgue, cordes et timbales (Concerto for organ, timpani and strings) in G minor, FP 93, is an organ concerto composed by Francis Poulenc between 1934 and 1938.

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Paignton

Paignton is a seaside town on the coast of Tor Bay in Devon, England.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

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Pavane pour une infante défunte

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Infanta) is piece for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré.

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Prince Edmond de Polignac

Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac (19 April 18348 August 1901) was a French composer.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Renard (Stravinsky)

Renard, Histoire burlesque chantée et jouée (The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played) is a one-act chamber opera-ballet by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1916.

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Renata Borgatti

Renata Borgatti (March 2, 1894 – March 8, 1964) was an Italian classical musician, performing in Europe and the United States.

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Romaine Brooks

Romaine Brooks, born Beatrice Romaine Goddard (May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970), was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri.

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Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host.

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Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Singer Corporation

Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.

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Socrate

Socrate is a work for voice and piano (or small orchestra) by Erik Satie.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.

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University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom.

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Vincent d'Indy

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher.

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Violet Trefusis

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author.

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Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (r; r; November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer.

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Wanda Landowska

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish-French harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.

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Wardrobe

A wardrobe or armoire is a standing closet used for storing clothes.

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Washington Singer

Washington Merritt Grant Singer (1866–1934) was an American-born English heir, philanthropist and prominent racehorse owner.

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Yonkers, New York

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnaretta_Singer

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