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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
The following listing represents but a scant fraction of the musical programs presented in the salons of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac. Regrettably, there are very few printed programs extant in the Polignac archives. The information listed here has been culled from every available source: books, printed programs in public and private archives, letters, diaries, and newspaper reports of the events. Often the data on the event is incomplete; every effort has been made to identify the date, location, composers, works, artists presented, guests, and sources for the information.
Asterisks (*) indicate works dedicated to the Princesse Edmond de Polignac
Date: Tuesday, 22 May 1888
Location: Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris
Composers/Works: Emmanuel Chabrier, Gwendoline, opera; Gabriel Fauré, Clair de lune, voice and piano (orchestrated version); works of Vincent d’Indy and Ernest Chausson
Artists: Thuringer, mezzo-soprano; Edmond Vergnet, tenor; Baldo, voice; Gabriel Fauré, harmonium and conductor; Emmanuel Chabrier, piano and conductor; Georges Marie, conductor; Vincent d’Indy and André Messager, percussion; the choruses and orchestras of Concerts Lamoureux and the Conservatoire
Sources: Figaro, 16 and 24 May 1888; Poulenc, Chabrier, 80–81
Date: mid-July 1889
Location: Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris
Composers/Works: Vincent d’Indy, Piano Trio (first performance)
Source: Vincent d’Indy to WSP, 19 July 1889, Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris
Date: June 1891
Location: Venice
Composers/Works: Gabriel Fauré, Mandoline,* En Sourdine,* voice and piano (premieres)
Artists: Amélie Duez, soprano; Gabriel Fauré, piano
Source: WSP, “Memoirs of the Late Princesse Edmond de Polignac,” Horizon
Date: September 1892
Location: Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris
Composers/Works: poems of Robert de Montesquiou
Artists: Sarah Bernhardt
Sources: Robert de Montesquiou to WSP, 20 August and September [undated] 1892, Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris; WSP to Robert de Montesquiou, 28 August 1892, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nafr 15115
Date: Early 1894
Location: Rue Cortambert atelier, Paris
Composers/Works: works for organ
Artists: various Parisian organists, including Alexandre Guilmant, Eugène Gigout, and Louis Vierne
Source: Figaro, 5 June 1894
Date: Monday, 21 May 1894
Location: Rue Cortambert atelier, Paris
Composers/Works: Gabriel Fauré, songs
Artists: Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux, soprano; Maurice Bagès, tenor
Source: Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux, daily diary, edition forthcoming (Paris: Fayard)
Date: Sunday, 20 January 1895
Location: Rue Cortambert atelier, Paris
Composers/Works: chamber music
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