LIND, Jenny (MADAME GOLDSCH MIDI) , Swedish singer: b. Stockholm, 6 Oct. 1820; d. Malvern, England, 2 Nov. 1887. In very early childhood she displayed the faculty for tune and of musical memory in such degree as to attract observation and at nine her voice was considered so remarkable that she was admitted to the Stockholm. Conservatory of Music as a pupil of Crcelius and Berg. After years of thorough study and voice-building, in 1838 she made her debut, with great success, as Agathe in 'Der As operatic star in Stockholm and other cities in Sweden and Norway, she extended her fame, and in 1841 studied for the greater part of the year in Paris under Manual Garcia. She went to Berlin in 1844, studied German, and in Meyerheer's ‘Feldlager in Schiesien> appeared as Vielka. During the next year she made a Continental tour which established her in a position of su premacy, her great successes being won in Dresden, Leipzig, etc., and finally in Vienna. In
1847 she made her first appearance in Eng land, which was followed by a succession of unprecedented triumphs. Her tour of the Uni ted States (1850-52) brought her not only fresh honors, hut also large financial returns, and was long remembered by many who shared in the material and spiritual benefits which her noble womanhood and artistic genius conferred. In 1852 she was married in Boston to Otto Coldschmidt (q.v.), then conducting the Bach choir, and virtually retired from her profession, though subsequently reappearing on special oc casions. She returned to Eurcspe; at length settled in London; and made her last public appearance at Dusseldorf in 1870. In 1894 a bust of her was unveiled in Westminster Ab bey. Consult Rockstro and Holland, 'Jenny Lind the (1891); Rockstro and Gold schmidt, (Jenny Lind, Her Vocal Art and Culture) (1894).