Winnaretta Singer

Winnaretta Singer (January 8th 1865 - November 26th 1943), Edmond princess of Polignac , was important a Mécène musical, a notorious Lesbienne, and the heiress of the sewing machines Singer.

She studies the Piano and the Orgue. After an unhappy marriage with prince Scey of Montbeliard, cancelled by the Vatican in 1892, she marries the following year Edmond de Polignac, like she homosexual, each one living freely thanks to this union.

She holds a living room with Venice, where she invites Gabriel Fauré. She encourages the majority of the musicians of her time. The French Nadia Baker, Emmanuel Chabrier, Jean Françaix, Reynaldo Hahn, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel, Henri Sauguet, German Tailleferre, Jean Wiener, but also Isaac Albeniz, Igor Markevitch, Kurt Weill, Ethel Smyth, Karol Szymanowski. The pianists Ricardo Viñes, White Selva, Clara Haskil, Lili Kraus, Anton Rubinstein and the dancer Isadora Duncan also benefitted from its assistance.

She orders many parts with famous type-setters. One owes him inter alia the creation of Socrate of Erik Satie, the Renard of Igor Stravinski, of the Retablo de Maese Pedro of Manuel of Falla, or of the Concerto for two pianos and the Concerto for organ of Francis Poulenc. Ravel dedicated its famous Pavane to him for a late infante .

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Article in The Villager , June 2004
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