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in 1926, while she was pregnant with her first child. By the following year, they were understood to be lovers, and he demanded that she forgo further musical performances, and forbid the
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In spring 1922 she gave twenty concerts in France, and returned to the United States for further performances in the autumn of that year. During the 1922 visit, she volunteered as a subject of analysis at the
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Magdeleine Brard first married in 1920, to
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1942), the daughter of Swiss businessman Enrico Wild, whom Brard married in 1945. Wild died in 1955. Magdeleine Brard died in 1998, aged 94 years.
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