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Olga Rudge, c. 1915
Olga Rudge (April 13, 1895 – March 15, 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary.
A gifted[1] concert violinist of international repute, her considerable talents[2] and reputation were eventually eclipsed by those of her lover, in whose shade she appeared content to remain. In return, Pound was more loyal, not to say faithful, to her than to any of his many other mistresses. He dedicated the final stanza of his epic The Cantos to her, in homage and gratitude for her courageous and loyal support during his 13-year incarceration in a mental hospital after having been indicted for treason against the United States for supporting Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. She also defended Pound against the accusation that he was anti-Semitic. During the last 11 years of Pound's life, Rudge was his devoted companion, secretary, and nurse, as he sank into eccentricity and prolonged periods of silence.
Rudge survived Pound by twenty-four years, remaining in the small house in Venice she had shared with him. In her declining years, an ongoing difficult relationship with Mary, her only child, left her vulnerable to the attention of parties with ulterior motives, resulting in the sad situation described in John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels, in which Rudge could not account for how Pound's papers and letters in her possession had found their way to Yale University. Failing health eventually forced her to leave her beloved Venice and spend her final days with her daughter. Rudge died at age 100 and is buried next to Pound in Venice's Isola di San Michele cemetery.
OlgaRudge (April 13, 1895 – March 15, 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound...
Pregnant by Pound, OlgaRudge followed the couple to Italy, and in July 1925 she gave birth to a daughter, Maria, in a hospital in Brixen. Rudge and Pound placed...
settled in Rapallo, Italy. In spite of her husband's 50-year affair with OlgaRudge, whom he met in Paris in the early 1920s, Dorothy stayed married to Pound...
lived the last part of his life in Venice with his long-time mistress OlgaRudge. Upon this book's release on September 27, 2005, it entered Amazon.com's...
Vivaldi by, among others, Mario Rinaldi, Alfredo Casella, Ezra Pound, OlgaRudge, Desmond Chute, Arturo Toscanini, Arnold Schering and Louis Kaufman, all...
strained relationships between the poet, his wife Dorothy and his lover OlgaRudge, casts further light on the recurrent jealousy theme. The phrase "Syrian...
at Barney's salon that Pound met his longtime mistress, the violinist OlgaRudge. In 1927 Barney started an Académie des Femmes (Women's Academy) to honor...
born 14 months after the daughter of Ezra and his mistress, violinist OlgaRudge. Dorothy took Omar to London when he was 18 months old, where she stayed...
historian Igor de Rachewiltz, married Mary, the daughter of Ezra Pound and OlgaRudge, in 1946. He studied Egyptology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in...
Egyptologist, and his wife Mary, daughter of the poet Ezra Pound and violinist OlgaRudge; Mary lives there to this day. Surrounding the castle is the family's...
moved for his health to Rapallo, Italy. There Chute knew Ezra Pound, OlgaRudge, and the Tigullian Circle musical society they promoted. He also knew...
was born Maria Rudge in Brixen, Italy, on July 9, 1925, the daughter of OlgaRudge, a classical violinist, and Ezra Pound, who was married to Dorothy Shakespear...
(d. 1980) April 5 – Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d. 1957) April 13 – OlgaRudge, American violinist (d. 1996) April 14 – Anton Reinthaller, Austrian right-wing...
. is a 33-page booklet published privately in Italy in early 1948 by OlgaRudge, mistress of the American poet Ezra Pound. Pound, who lived in Italy with...
translator and poet, was born as Maria Rudge in 1925 as the daughter of the American poet Ezra Pound and his mistress OlgaRudge, a concert violinist. She grew...
on stage with the violinist OlgaRudge during this period. They worked frequently together, despite the presence of Rudge's lover, the famous poet Ezra...
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Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) Olivia Shakespear (mother-in-law) OlgaRudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz (daughter) Boris de Rachewiltz (son-in-law)...
commissioned Antheil to write three violin sonatas for his mistress, OlgaRudge. In 1924, Pound published Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, as part...
the Count and a most influential connection with the Accademia. In 1933 OlgaRudge, a notable violinist and a companion of Ezra Pound, became a secretary...
March 4 – Minnie Pearl, comedian and country musician, 83 March 15 – OlgaRudge, violinist, 101 March 22 – Don Murray, drummer (The Turtles), 50 (post-operative...
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