Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — JENNY LIND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JENNY LIND.

Some Recollections of the Famous “Swedish Nightingale.” News recently came by cable from London that Jenny Lind bad received a stroke of paralysis and was hopele.-slv ill. She is a Swede, l-orn at ttockholm, Oct. ( ! , 18*21. Her parents were in bumble circumstances, but the remarkable power and pathos of her voice attracted attention when she was a tiny tot of a child, and she was only 9 years of age when, owing to the kind offices of an actress, she was admitted into the Conservatory of Stockholm. Her progress was wonderful, and it was greatly promoted after she had left the conservatory by her residence with the family of the popular bwedish com-

poser, Adolph Frederick Lindblad. Jenny Lind was 18 years of age when, after brilliant successes in private entertainments and in court concerts, she made her first appearance in opera an Agatha in “Der Jb rieschutz. ” This was the beginning of a local fame which eclipsed that of all Swedish singers. In 1811 she placed herself under the tuition of Garcia at Paris. She was engaged at Berlin in 1814, at the instance of Meyerbeer, who had met her in Paris, and her “period of "glory,” as an enthusiastic admirer puts it, began in that city, in “Norma.” Her engagement at the Prussian capital ended in April, 1845, after which she visited veral German cities, including Vienna. The great singer made her debut in London, in 1847, with a very marked success. It was followed by a tour in England. After spending some time in Stockholm, where tickets entitling the fortunate holders to seats where she sang were sold by auction, she returned to London in 1849. She retired from the stage in May of that year, the principal cause being the objection » a gentleman to whom she was engaged to be married, but who did not become her husband. Jenny Lind now formed the project to devote herself to oratorio and concert singing, and in 1850 she made an engagement with P. T. Barnum for a concert tour in America, extending through the United States, British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies. Her first appearance in New York will be remembered as probably the greatest musical event that has ever taken place on this’ continent. The receipts of this tour were SOIO,OOO, of which her share amounted to $302,000. It was at Boston, February 5, 1852, that she became the wife of Mr. Otto Goldsmidt, who accompanied her as pianist. In 1852 Madame Goldsmidt and her husbaud returned to Europe. She visited her native city, and then made her residence at Dresden. Some of her greatest triumphs were realized in England, after her return to that country in 1856. In 1874 she and her husband became leading Professors at the Rhenish Academy of Music in Wiesbaden. Her home of late years has been in London, where her kind manners and abundant charities, as everywhere she has lived, have endeared her to the public. Jenny Lind will be remembered by posterity as a queen of song, nor less as a model wife, mother and friend, and a woman of great and beneficent heart.