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Christine Nilsson
in Boston, on February 5, 1852, and the marriage turned out to be a happy
one. Long before her marriage she had left the operatic stage and betaken
herself to the concert hall. “How she sang there,” says Chorley, “many of
the present generation will still remember—the wild, queer Northern tunes
brought from her native land—her careful expression of Mozart’s great airs,
her mastery over such a piece
of execution as the Bird Song
in Haydn’s ‘Creation,’ and
lastly the grandeur of in-
spiration with which the
‘Sanctus’ of angels in Men-
delssohn’s ‘Elijah’ was led
by her. These are the tri-
umphs which will stamp her
name forever as one of the
brightest in the golden book
O O
of singers.” Her private life
was as admirable as her pub-
lic repute; her generosity
was unbounded; her mod-
esty and nobility of soul have
been the theme of enthusias-
tic eulogy. She died at her
villa, Wynds Point, Malvern
Wells, England, November
2, 1887. A marble medal-
lion of her head was put up
in the poet’s corner in West-
minster Abbey, and unveiled
on April 20, 1894.
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Christine Nilsson was born August 20, 1843, in the parish of Wederslof,
near Wexio, Sweden, where her father was a small farmer on the estate of Count
Hamilton. Her first teachers were the Baroness Lenheusen and Frans Ber-
wald in Stockholm. She was afterward taken to Paris by the Baroness and
studied singing under M. Wartel. She made her debut at the Theatre Lyr-
ique, October 27, 1864, as Violetta in “La Traviata. She made an instant
success and remained at the Lyrique nearly three years, after which she came
CHRISTINE NILSSON
Cointesse Miranda,
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