Jenny Lind
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Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in
1862 portrait
Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, where Lind sang some early roles
Lind as Amina in La sonnambula
Daguerreotype of Lind, 1850
Otto Goldschmidt
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Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt was a pianist, composer, conductor and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the
Jenny Lind
…13,545,000 in 2025) from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852, settling in England in 1855. She had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next three decades. From…
Goldschmidt and wife Jenny Lind
Goldschmidt in later years