Sheet Music cover: "Jenny Lind's Greeting to America"
Sheet music cover for Jenny Lind's Greeting to America. Printed with green ink as a flourish to an otherwise black and white illustration, it... Show moreSheet music cover for Jenny Lind's Greeting to America. Printed with green ink as a flourish to an otherwise black and white illustration, it features Lind on the center of the cover, with a host of angels framed around her. The sheet music associated with the song has been lost. Additional sheet music for a song called "The Skylark, a morning song" was placed within this cover. However, it is unclear if "The Skylark" was originally bound together with the cover. Published by Firth, Pond, and Co, 1 Franklin Square and S.C. Jollie, 300 Broadway. Lithograph by Sarony, New York. Jenny Lind (6 October 1820-2 November 1887) was a Swedish opera singer, known as The Swedish Nightingale. The exceptional quality of her voice was recognized when she was young, and she received training at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She reached high acclaim in Europe, and eventually P.T. Barnum engaged her for a tour of America in 1850-1851. Lind, previously unknown in the US, was promoted by Barnum, creating insatiable demand for concert tickets and the innumerable consumer products that were manufactured with her name. Halfway through the tour, Lind married replacement pianist Otto Goldschmidt. The couple had three children, and Lind became a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London. She is buried at the Great Malvern Cemetery in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. Show less