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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 of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life.
Winnaretta Singer was a talented musician and an accomplished artist, a patron of avantgarde culture, and presided over one of the most illustrious salons in Paris. She was wealthy, independent-minded, reserved, and urbane.
Mar 24, 2017 · What she accomplished: Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) welcomed musicians and other artists to her Paris salon for more than 50 years and commissioned works by many. She was the 20th of 24 -- yes,...
May 29, 2020 · Born on January 8, 1865, Winnaretta was the twentieth of twenty-four children fathered by Isaac Singer. Daughter to Singer’s second wife Isabella Eugénie Boyer, Winnaretta was one of Singer's legitimate children.
Jul 10, 2024 · Winnaretta Eugénie Singer was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1865. Her father was Isaac Merritt Singer, the American industrialist who improved the sewing-machine. He was married to a young French woman, Isabelle Eugénie Boyer.
Winnaretta Singer was an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, a patron of the arts in Paris ... and a lover of many women. She was American-born, a ...
Winnaretta Singer was an American-born heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life.
Winnaretta Singer played a major role in Nadia Boulanger’s career: by officially naming her music director of all the concerts held in the mansion, she gave Nadia the opportunity to gather singers and musicians to create her own ensemble.
Winnaretta Singer’s influence is immeasurable. The twentieth child of twenty-four, (by five women), of American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur Isaac Singer of sewing machine fame, used her considerable fortune to support musicians, authors, musical organizations, and humanitarian causes.
The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac (WSP) used her colossal fortune to champion the cause of musical modernism.
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