Music's modern muse
Subtitle: a life of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac
By: Sylvia Kahan
Series: Eastman studies in music -- v. 22
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: Polignac, Winnaretta, -- princesse de, -- 1865-1943; Music patrons -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-525) and index
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: An international child; title: Life with mother; title: A woman of the world; title: The sewing machine and the lyre; title: Marriage and music; title: La belle époque; title: Renovations; title: Modern times; title: The astonishing years; title: Shelter from the storm; title: The magic of everyday things; title: Cottages of the elite, palaces of the people; title: A pride of protégés; title: Mademoiselle; title: All music is modern; title: The beautiful kingdom of sounds; title: Postlude