LIND, .TENNY (Madame GOISISCII M 19T) ( 1820 87). A celebrated singer. popularly known as 'the Swedish Nightingale.' She was born at Stockholm of humble parentage. ller wonderful voice was first noticed by an actress. through whose influence she was afterwards admitted. at the age of nine, into the Stockhohn Conservatory of Music, at \villa place she became the pupil of Crudius and Berg. Through the school of sing ing attached to the Court theatre. she was en allied to make her cant (1838) as Agathe. in Der Frciti•ht,:, in which her success was in stantaneous. In 1841 she passed a period of nine months in study with Manuel 1:arcia in Paris. In Berlin (1844), where she had gone to study Cerman, she sang the rode of Vielka in Aleyerheer's Fehtlayer in Schirsirn. In April. 1845, she made an tour throughout Continental Europe. during which she met with unequaled success, her singing at the Leipzig ; ewa n dhau s firmly establish ing her and securing for her an engagement for the Vienna Opera. Her first appearance in England was in 1847. From 1850 to 1552 she made a tour of the United States, which was as snecessful from the financial point of view as it was from the artistic. She was married in Boston in 1852
to Otto Goldschmidt, who was conducting the Bach Choir. After her return to Europe she lived for a few years at Dresden. and afterwards settled in London. Her last public appearan•e was at Dfisseldorf at the festival of the Lower Rhenish Musical Society in 1870. Possibly no other stage artist has been as popular through out the world for her personal qualities as Jenny Lind. She was widely known for her generosity. ller voice a soprano of bright. brilliant. thrilling. and sympathetic quality. her principal accomplishment being an mastery of coloratura. She invariably improvised her own cadenzas, which were always in exquisite taste. She (lied at Stockholm. A bust of Jenny Lind was unveiled in Westminster Abbey in 1891. Consult : ltockstro and llolland..11,10y Lind. the Artist (London. 18911: Rockstro and (old schmidt, denny Lind, Her 1 oral .1 rt and r nit tor (London. 1894).