DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

736 LINDA DI CHAMOUNI LINDLEY
tion and hospitality, welcomed lier everywhere
with frantic enthusiasm, and she made £20,000
in tliis jirogress. Here it was, in Boston, on
Feb. 5, 185'2, that she married Mr. Otto Gold-
Schmidt. [Goldschmiht.]
Returned to Europe, Mme. Goldschmidt now
travelled through Holland, and again visited
Germany. [Dresden was her home in 1852-55.]
In 1856 she came once more to England, and
for some years appeared frequently in oratorios
and concerts. Her actual last appearance waa
at a concert for a charity at Malvern, July 23,
1S83. In that year she accepted an appointment
as teacher of singing at the Royal College
of Music, which slie held till 1886.
It must be recorded that the whole of her
American earnings was devoted to founding and
endowing art-scholarshipjs and other charities
in her native Sweden ; while in England the
country of her adoption, among other charities,
she gave a wliole hospital to Liverpool and a
wing of another to London. In the winter
of 1848-49, she raised a sum of £10,500 for
charities. The scholarship founded in memory
of her friend Felix Jlendelssohn also benefited
largely by her help and countenance ; and it
may be said with truth that her generosity and
her sympathy were never appealed to in vain
by those who had any just claims upon them.
[Mendels.sohn Scholarship.]
Madame Lind Goldschmidt was respected and
admired by all who knew her, the mother of a
family, mixing in society, but in no degree
losing her vivid interest in music. The Bach
Choir, conducted by Mr. Goldschmidt, which
gave the English public the first opportunity of
hearing in its entirety the B minor Mass of that
composer, profited in no small degree by the
careful training bestowed on the female portion
of the chorus by this great singer, and the
enthusiasm inspired by her presence among
them. She died at Wynd's Point, Malvern,
Nov. 2, 1887. [In 1891 the memoir Jenny
Lind, the Artist, by Canon H. Scott Holland and
W. S. Rockstro, appeared in two volumes ; a
condensed edition appeared in 1893, and in
1894, Mr. Rockstro imblished a short record
and criticism of her method, giving numerous
cadenzas, etc. Many corrections in the above
article have been made from the first of these
books. On April 20, 1894, H.R.H. Princess
Christian unveiled a medallion of Jenny Lind
in Westminster Abbey. See Billroth's Studies
in Music, p. 252.] J. M.
LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. Opera in three
acts ; words by Rossi, music by Donizetti.
Produced at the Karnthnerthor Theatre, Vienna,
May 19, 1842; in Paris, Nov. 17, 1842; in
London, at Her Majesty's, June 1843. G.
LINDBLAD, Abolf Fredrick, born near
Stockholm, Feb. 1, 1801. This Swedish composer
passed several years of his early life in
Berlin, and studied music there under Zelter.
In 1827 he returned to Stockholm and there
resided, giving singing-lessons and composing
until his death, August 23, 1878.
Lindblad composed but little instrumental
music ; a symphony in C wliich was given under
Mendelssohn's direction at one of the Gewandhaus
Concerts at Leipzig in Nov. 1839, and
a duo for pianoforte and violin (op. 9) are considered
the best, but they aim so little at efi'ect
and are so full of the pjeculiar personality of
their author that they can never be popular,
and even his own countrymen are not familiar
with them. It is his vocal compositions which
have made him famous. He was eminently a
national composer. He published a large collection
of songs for voice and piano to Swedish
words, which are full of melody, grace, and
originality. Written for the most part in the
minor mode, they are tinged with the melancholy
which is characteristic of Swedish music. In
such short songs as ' The Song of the Dalecarlian
Maiden,' 'Lament,' 'The Wood by the Aaren
Lake,' etc., whose extreme simplicity is of the
very essence of their charm, his success has been
most conspicuous. In longer and more elaborate
songs, where the simplicity at which he aimed
in his accompaniment has limited the variety
of harmony and figures, the effect is often
marred by repetition and consequent monotony.
Yet even in this class of w^ork there are many
beautiful excepitions, and ' A Day in Spring,'
'A Summer's Day,' and 'Autumn Evening,' are
specially worthy of mention.
Jenny Lind, who was Lindblad's pupil, introduced
his songs into Germany, and their rapidly
acquired popularity earned for the author the
title of ' the Schubert of the North.' His only
opera, ' Frondararne,' was performed at Stockholm,
1835, and revived for the opening of the
new opera-house there in 1898. Several of his
voca^ duets, trios, and quartets have a considerable
reputation in Sweden.
An analysis of Lindblad's Symphony will be
found in the Allg. Mus. Zeitung for Oct. 23,
1839 (comp. col. 937 of the same volume).
There is a pleasant reference to him, honourable
to both parties alike, in Mendelssohn's letter of
Dec. 28, 1833. a. h. w.
LINDLEY, Robert, born at Rotherham,
March 4, 1776, showed so early a predilection
for music that when he was about five years of
age, his father, an amateur performer, commenced
teaching him the violin, and at nine
years of age, the violoncello also. He continued
to pjractise the latter until he was sixteen, when
Cervetto, hearing him play, encouraged him
and undertook his gratuitous instruction. He
quitted Yorkshire and obtained an engagement
at the Brighton theatre. In 1794 he succeeded
Sperati as principal violoncello at the Opera
and all the principal concerts, and retained
undisputed possession of that position until
his retirement in 1851. [His intimacy with