Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prelude
- 1 An International Child
- 2 Life with Mother
- 3 A Woman of the World
- 4 The Sewing Machine and the Lyre
- 5 Marriage and Music
- 6 La Belle Époque
- 7 Renovations
- 8 Modern Times
- 9 The Astonishing Years
- 10 Shelter from the Storm
- 11 The Magic of Everyday Things
- 12 Cottages of the Elite, Palaces of the People
- 13 A Pride of Protégés
- 14 Mademoiselle
- 15 All Music is Modern
- 16 The Beautiful Kingdom of Sounds Postlude
- Postlude
- Appendix A Musical Performances in the Salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Appendix B Guests in the Salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Appendix C Works Commissioned by and Dedicated to the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix C - Works Commissioned by and Dedicated to the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prelude
- 1 An International Child
- 2 Life with Mother
- 3 A Woman of the World
- 4 The Sewing Machine and the Lyre
- 5 Marriage and Music
- 6 La Belle Époque
- 7 Renovations
- 8 Modern Times
- 9 The Astonishing Years
- 10 Shelter from the Storm
- 11 The Magic of Everyday Things
- 12 Cottages of the Elite, Palaces of the People
- 13 A Pride of Protégés
- 14 Mademoiselle
- 15 All Music is Modern
- 16 The Beautiful Kingdom of Sounds Postlude
- Postlude
- Appendix A Musical Performances in the Salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Appendix B Guests in the Salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Appendix C Works Commissioned by and Dedicated to the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Works Commissioned by and Dedicated to the Princesse de Polignac
Lennox Berkeley
Deux poèmes de Pindare: Dithyrambe et Hymne (1936)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Alt Wien, Rhapsody for Two Pianos (1923)
Manuel de Falla
El Retablo de Maese Pedro (1923)
Jean Françaix
Le Diable boîteux, opera-cantata (1937)
Sérénade pour douze instruments (1934)
Marcelle de Manziarly
Trois Duos pour deux soprani (1934): 1. J’aimeray mon amy; 2. Hélas, que je suis désolée!; 3. M’y levay par ung matin
Igor Markevitch
Partita for Piano and Orchestra (1930)
Hymnes (1934)
Darius Milhaud
Les Malheurs d’Orphée, opera (1924)
Nicolas Nabokov
Job, oratorio (1933)
Armande de Polignac
La Recherche de la vérité, ballet (1918)
Peter Pope
String Trio (1940)
Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932)
Concerto for Organ, Tympani, and Strings (1938)
Erik Satie
Socrate, drame symphonique (1918)
Henri Sauguet
Les Jeux de l’amour et du hasard for Two Pianos (1932)
Igor Stravinsky
Renard (1916)
Germaine Tailleferre
Concerto for Piano (1923)
Ouverture for Orchestra (1932)
Kurt Weill
Symphony No. 2 (1932)
Jean Wiéner
Concerto franco-américain for Piano and Orchestra (1924)
Works Dedicated to the Princesse de Polignac
Joseph Bonnet
Prélude au Slave Regina, Op. 7, No. 7, for organ (1910)
Anthony Chaplin
Sarabande sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré (1945—in memory of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac)
Emmanuel Colarocco
Il Giganto del lago (1933)
Gabriel Fauré
Larmes, Op. 51, No. 1 (1888) Cinq Mélodies de Venise, Op. 58 (1891): 1. Mandoline; 2. En Sourdine; 3. Green; 4. A Clymène; 5. C’est l’extase
Incidental Music to Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 (1898)
Winifred Gordon
Meditation for Cello and Piano (date unknown)
Manuel Infante
Ritmo from Trois Danses andalouses for two pianos (1921)
Daniel Lazarus
Toccata for piano (date unknown)
Adela Maddison
Soleil couchant for two women's voices or women's chorus (1895)
Armande de Polignac
Les Mille et Une Nuits, ballet (1914)
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Ethel Smyth
The Wreckers, opera: Prelude to Act II, “On the Cliffs of Cornwall” (1909)
Igor Stravinsky
Piano Sonata (1924)
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- Music's Modern MuseA Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, pp. 417 - 418Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003