Nissen-Saloman, Henriette

1819-1879

Born at Gothenburg, Sweden. She early showed musical talent, and when twenty years old was in Paris, a piano pupil of Chopin, and a voice pupil of Manuel Garcia. In 1843 she made her first public appearance in Italian Opera in Paris as Adalgisa in Norma, and Elvira in Don Juan. She met with much success and sang for three years in various cities of Italy, Russia, England, Norway and Sweden. She appeared at most of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipsic for two years, and while in Berlin was favorably compared with Jenny Lind. She was married to Saloman, a Danish musician, in 1850. In 1859 she was made teacher of singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she remained the rest of her life. She has published a method of singing in Russian, German and French.