GOLDSCHMIDT, MADAME (gold' shmit), maiden name JENNY LIND, a famous Swedish vocalist; born in Stock holm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 1820. At 3 years of age she could sing correctly any piece she had once heard, and at 9 she was placed under Croelius, a famous teacher of music. Count Piicke, manager of the court theater, after hearing her sing, caused her name at once to be entered at the Musical Academy, where she made rapid progress. She acted re peatedly in children's parts on the Stockholm stage till her 12th year, when her upper notes lost their sweet ness. For four years she studied music theoretically. Her voice having re covered, she appeared at the Royal Theater, Stockholm, as Agatha, in "Der Freischiitz," in 1838, and for 11/2 years she continued the star of the opera at Stockholm. A series of concerts in the principal towns of Norway and Sweden gave her the means to study in Paris under Garcia. Declining Meyerbeer's offer to go to Berlin, she returned to her native city, where she enjoyed a great triumph on her reappearance. In
1844 she went to Dresden, and after ward to Frankfort, Cologne, and Vienna. She first appeared before a London audi ence in May, 1847, as Alice, in "Robert the Devil," followed by a series of un paralleled triumphs in "Sonnambula," "The Daughter of the Regiment," "Puri tani," etc. She visited New York in 1850, under the auspices of P. T. Barnum, and was enthusiastically re ceived, but dissolved the engagement prematurely in 1851, was married to M. Otto Goldschmidt, a skillful pianist and conductor, and retired from the stage. She reappeared in 1855, in 1861, in 1863, and in 1880, for a limited period. She was Professor of Singing at the Royal College of Music, 1883-1886. She died in Wynd's Point, Malvern, England, Nov. 2, 1887.