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Winnaretta Singer principessa de Polignac ( Yonkers, 8 gennaio 1865 – Londra, 26 novembre 1943) è stata una mecenate statunitense naturalizzata francese . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Il mecenatismo. 2.1 Beneficenza. 3 Note. 4 Altri progetti. Biografia.
Winnaretta Singer (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was an American-born heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life.
11 gen 2022 · Winnaretta Singer, l’ereditiera che diventò principessa di Polignac e non nascose mai di essere lesbica. Nel suo salotto le prime esecuzioni di opere musicali d’avanguardia. Di Sara Mostaccio...
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1 giorno fa · Winnaretta and Prince de Polignac got married in December 1893. They both shared a love for arts - especially Monet’s works - and for music. They started to host some music gatherings where several famous personalities from arts, literature and science came together.
Winnaretta. 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. Her 1893 marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, an amateur composer, brought her into contact with the most elite strata of French society.
Winnaretta Singer was the daughter of Isaac Merritt Singer, the inventor of the sewing machine, and a wealthy and influential figure in Parisian culture. She was a painter, a musician, a collector of Impressionist art, and a supporter of modern composers and ballet.
Before 1900. Posted in Patron of the arts. Winnaretta Singer wanted to give priority to her favorite music, especially the modern one. Before 1900, her musical tastes were already sophisticated. The first concerts she organised in her wooden atelier located in the r ue Cortambert in Paris took place in the late 1880s.
