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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.
May 29, 2020 · Born on January 8, 1865, Winnaretta was the twentieth of twenty-four children fathered by Isaac Singer. Daughter to Singer’s second wife Isabella Eugénie Boyer, Winnaretta was one of Singer's legitimate children.
Mar 24, 2017 · Today's woman to know is Winnaretta Singer. Who she was: An heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, an arts patron in Paris for five decades, and a lover of many women. What she...
4 days ago · Winnaretta Eugénie Singer was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1865. Her father was Isaac Merritt Singer, the American industrialist who improved the sewing-machine. He was married to a young French woman, Isabelle Eugénie Boyer.
Winnaretta Singer was a talented musician and an accomplished artist, a patron of avantgarde culture, and presided over one of the most illustrious salons in Paris. She was wealthy, independent-minded, reserved, and urbane.
Introduction. (pp. xvii-xxii) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc16m1f.5. This book is first and foremost a study of a remarkable life in music. The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac (WSP) used her colossal fortune to champion the cause of musical modernism.
Winnaretta Singer played a major role in Nadia Boulanger’s career: by officially naming her music director of all the concerts held in the mansion, she gave Nadia the opportunity to gather singers and musicians to create her own ensemble.
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.
This was true in France during the early to mid-20th century to the extent that musical life was influenced, moulded, and supported by Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, the great patron – La Grande Mécène – of modern music and host of musical gatherings at her residence in central Paris.
Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was a musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Born in America, she lived most of her adult life in France. Winnaretta Singer was the twentieth of the 24 children of Isaac Singer.
