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...
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Prince Edmond de Polignac (section Winnaretta Singer)
Greffulhe, and out of these conversations the name of Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Isaac Singer, the sewing machine tycoon, arose. Her marriage to Prince...
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retablo de Maese Pedro (at the premiere of which, at the salon of Winnaretta Singer, Poulenc and Landowska met for the first time). After a private performance...
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Adam Mortimer Singer (1863—1929), Winnaretta Eugénie Singer (1865–1943), Washington Merritt Grant Singer (1866–1934), Paris Eugene Singer (1867–1932),...
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Sabine Crossroads Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901), composer Winnaretta Singer, princess de Polignac (1865–1943) Armande de Polignac (1876–1962)...
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Trefusis was one of the many lovers of the Singer sewing machine heiress Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Isaac Singer and wife of the homosexual Prince Edmond...
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Singer, the American sewing machine pioneer. After her mother's suicide, she and her siblings were largely raised by their maternal aunt, Winnaretta Singer...
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Van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar (née de Rothschild, 1863-1947) Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) (lover of Olga de Meyer and Renata Borgatti) Maurice Talvande...
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Morris Hunt Augustus Schell Richard Schell Carl A. Schenck T. F. Secor Winnaretta Singer Alfred Holland Smith Amasa Stone Hamilton McKown Twombly The following...
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Alvilde is said to have had lesbian affairs with Vita Sackville-West, Winnaretta Singer and others. Alvilde Lees-Milne died in 1994. James Lees-Milne died...
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Together, they had six children: Sir Adam Mortimer Singer (1863–1929) Winnaretta Eugenie Singer (1865–1943), a patron of 20th-century music who married...
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was established in 1929 with the help of Consuelo Vanderbilt and Winnaretta Singer. It was named in honour of Ferdinand Foch. The hospital is today one...
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Edmond de Polignac, wife of the last named, was the American heiress Winnaretta Singer. Comte Pierre de Polignac, a great-great-grandson of the first duke...
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the Princess de Polignac (formerly Winnaretta Singer, a daughter of Singer sewing machine fortune founder Isaac Singer), Prince Antoine Bibesco, and the...
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salons were major centres for contemporary music, including those of Winnaretta Singer (the princesse de Polignac), and Élisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe. They...
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During the early-1920s, she became intimately involved with Winnaretta Singer, heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She performed on stage with the...
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television actor Walt Singer (1911–1992), American football player Holm Singer (born 1961), former East German Stasi informant Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), princess...
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wife in 1896 their children were raised in large part by their aunt Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac. A member of the Yacht Club de France...
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Brooks, Jean Moreas, Winnaretta Singer, and Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (seen below, and more famously portrayed by John Singer Sargent in his painting...
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friends in the circle of the Subercaseauxes: the American heiress Winnaretta Singer; the composer Gabriel Fauré; French painters Joseph-Roger Jourdain...
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rumours were never substantiated. Better known by her original name Winnaretta Singer and her later title the Princesse de Polignac. In the UK, the first...
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speaker in the various sections is meant to be represented by a different singer (Alcibiades, Socrates, Phaedrus, Phaedo), according to Satie's indication...
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benefactors. It's indispensable to mention the name of the sponsor Winnaretta Singer which generous financial subsides ensured the success of Sergei Diaghilev's...
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Edmond (1834–1901), later a noted musician and composer, who married Winnaretta Singer in a famous mariage blanc. The couple's marriage was annulled by the...
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November 22 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist, 48 (pneumonia) November 26 – Winnaretta Singer, musical patron, 78 November 28 – Arthur Catterall, violinist, orchestra...
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piano duet. It was inspired by Hélène, nicknamed "Dolly", daughter of the singer Emma Bardac with whom Fauré was intimately associated in the 1890s. The...
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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (d. 1943) 1866 – William G. Conley, American...
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after his death. The work first belonged to the private collection of Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac, where it remained until 1944, after...
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Wolkoff) on the Grand Canal, as a guest of Winnaretta Singer, the future Princess de Polignac. Among Singer's other guests were the painter Ernest Ange...
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Gide, Cole Porter, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Winnaretta Singer, Isadora Duncan. He also met with French poet Jean Cocteau, whom,...
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