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Villa Senar

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Villa Senar is an estate near Hertenstein on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, built for the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who bought the land in 1932 and had the Swiss architects Alfred Mori and Karl Friedrich Krebs design a strikingly modern house there. Its name combines letters from Sergei, his wife Natalia, and their surname Rachmaninoff. The Rachmaninoffs summered at Senar until 1939, when they emigrated to the United States ahead of the Second World War, and the composer completed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini there in 1934 and his Third Symphony in 1936, while guests included the writer Ivan Bunin and the pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The canton of Lucerne bought the villa in 2022 and opened it to the public on April 1, 2023, Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday, as a cultural center. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Weggis, Switzerland 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Villa Senar (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Senar, lead definition
    Villa Senar is an estate built in Switzerland by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa Senar is an estate near Hertenstein on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, built for the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who bought the land in 1932 and had the Swiss architects Alfred Mori and Karl Friedrich Krebs design a strikingly modern house there. Its name combines letters from Sergei, his wife Natalia, and their surname Rachmaninoff. The Rachmaninoffs summered at Senar until 1939, when they emigrated to the United States ahead of the Second World War, and the composer completed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini there in 1934 and his Third Symphony in 1936, while guests included the writer Ivan Bunin and the pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The canton of Lucerne bought the villa in 2022 and opened it to the public on April 1, 2023, Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday, as a cultural center.
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2. Villa Senar (Wikidata)
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  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q7930499, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Weggis, Switzerland
    Wikidata item Q7930499, property P131/P17 (location): Weggis, Switzerland
  • In Style: New Objectivity Architecture, Wikidata P149
    architectural style: Neues Bauen
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Wikidata: Villa Senar
Wikidata Q7930499, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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