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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...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • November 22 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist, 48 (pneumonia) November 26 – Winnaretta Singer, musical patron, 78 November 28 – Arthur Catterall, violinist, orchestra...
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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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  • Hawkes in 1925. It is dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac, Winnaretta Singer. The sonata is in three movements and takes between 9 and 11 minutes...
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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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    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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