Music's Modern Muse

Music's Modern Muse
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Total Pages : 547
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ISBN-10 : 1580463339
ISBN-13 : 9781580463331
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Download or read book Music's Modern Muse written by Sylvia Kahan and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.


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