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Great Musical Patrons 3 – Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Elizabeth Penn Sprague was born in Chicago in 1864. Her father was a wealthy owner of a wholesale grocery supply business and young Elizabeth was brought up in an atmosphere where it was not expected that she would work. She…
GREAT MUSICAL PATRONS 1 – Winnaretta Singer aka Princess Edmond de Polignac
Born in 1865, Winnaretta Singer was the 20th of 24 children by five wives of Isaac Merritt Singer who was the co-inventor of the sewing machine and hence immensely rich. Her mother was Isaac’s Parisian-born second wife, Isabella Eugenie Boyer,…
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