Music's Modern Muse : A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac /
"In addition to playing piano and organ, Singer-Polignac enjoyed some success as a painter: a number of her canvases were accepted for annual exhibitions of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. She supported the work of several women composers, including Ethel Smyth and Adela Maddison, using her influe...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 epoque
- 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 proteges
- Mademoiselle
- All music is modern
- The beautiful kingdom of sounds
- Postlude.