Music's modern muse : a life of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac /
"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. Living in Paris, she quickly became active in musical life there, holding the premier avant-garde musical salon in her home f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Eastman studies in music.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.