Lablache, Signor, 259; alone faithful, 260; letter to Mr. Lumley, 261; introduced to J. Lind, 263; J. Lind on, 295; at Osborne, 295; Dottore Dulcamara, 327; at concert for Brompton Hospital, 333; on J. Lind’s _fioritura_, 361; at Mrs. Grote’s, 368

Lablache, Signor F., on tour in England with J. Lind, 301, 337; on tour with Mr. and Mme. Goldschmidt, 451

Ladugårdslands church, at Stockholm, 64

Lansdowne House, concert at, 277

LAST OPERA, THE, 348

LAST WORDS, 448

Leopold, King of the Belgians, on J. Lind, 155; at Buckingham Palace, 295

Lewin, Mr. Edward, 156, 229; on tour in England with J. Lind, 301, 337; at home in Swedish, 301; the friend of J. Lind, 301, 369; escorts J. Lind to England, 369

Leipzig, 178; the Conservatorium at, 179

_Lexicon, Swedish Biographical_, 11

Lind, Fru (the mother of Jenny), 8, 20, 21; Jenny boarding with her, while a pupil at Theatre-School, 17; letters from, 38, 39, 40, 41; J. Lind’s record of their meeting in 1848, 319; regarding her death, 443–445

Lind, Jenny, Retrospection, 1–6; at the Royal Theatre, 7; Birth, parentage, and early life, 7; detection of musical gifts, 10; the historic _fanfare_, 10, 11; adoption 11; introduction to Croelius, 12; PUPILAGE, 15; agreement, 16, 17; summary of training, 17; first recorded letter of, 22, 23; CAREER, 24; dramatic power, 24, 77; first appearance, _æt._ 10, 24, 25; _Heimdall_, 25, 30, 31; _The Daily Allehanda_, 29, 30; DISCOVERY, 35; overstrain, 37, 38; country life, 38, 39; leaves her mother, 41; final disruption, 42; a congenial home, 42; serenade and presentation of plate, 43; the “nightingale,” 44; in Stockholm society, 48, 49, 50; personal appearance of, 53; height, 53; CHARACTER, 54; PILGRIMAGE, 58; provincial tour (Sweden), 62; characteristic charities, 62, 63, 161, 163, 164; overstrain, 63, 64; remuneration (1840), 64; object of visit to Paris, 64, 66; IN PARIS, 65; energy and perseverance, 68, 69; _ab initio_, 70; scale practice, 70; the shake, 70; management of the breath, 70, 71; railway accident, 78, 79; recovery of full powers, 80; engaged for Stockholm, 85, _seq._; false report of Parisian _début_, 89, 90; ACHIEVEMENT, 91; HOME: AND AFTER?, 91; _messa di voce_, 92; change of guardianship, and provision for parents, 94, 95, 97; sings at Copenhagen, 102; return to Stockholm, 106; letter on _Armida_, 106; Dresden, 109; study of German, 111; recalled to Stockholm, 113; appearances at, 114; offer of engagement and pension, 114; final refusal, 114; arrival at Berlin, 115, 116; TRANSFIGURATION, 117, 118; generosity of J. Lind, 123, 124; _début_ in Norma, 125; first appearance as Vielka, 131; a serenade, 133; text of the Bunn contract, 130, 137; Bunn contract signed, 137; alarming attack, 141; a touching _Auf Wiedersehen_, 144; “oscillation,” 147, 379; at Hamburg, 148; return to Germany, 153; appears before Queen Victoria, 154; at Frankfort, 154, 156, 157; voice, 157; _cadenzas_, 157; at Copenhagen, 161; at Leipzig, 179, _seq._; ovation at, 182, 183; _Die Vestalin_ at Berlin, 184; at Weimar with Andersen, 188; _Die Hugenotten_ at Berlin, 190; a sprained foot, 192; AUF WIEDERSEHEN, 192–197; again at Leipzig, 198, 200; _début_ at Vienna, 205; enthusiastic receptions, 205–7; LOWER RHINE MUSICAL FESTIVAL, 217; at Aix-la-Chapelle, 220; at Hanover, 225; at Hamburg, 226; excessive fatigue, 226; rest, 227; memorable visit to Frankfort, 229; refusal of Mr. Lumley’s offers, 229; fear of Mr. Bunn, 229, 256; at Darmstadt, 231; the Lumley contract, 235, 236; _concerts particuliers_, 239, 240, 242; at Vienna, 253; accepts Mr. Lumley’s proposals for London, 262; visits Mrs. Grote, 262; nervousness, 263; “a private” hearing, 263; perseverance and punctuality at rehearsals, 264; _Roberto il Diavolo_, 265 _et seq._; the Terzetto in Act V., 266; LA SONNAMBULA, 278 _et seq._; “the Priestess of Nature,” 283; _Norma_, 284; _I Masnadieri_, 288; the music of Mozart, 290; among British Royalties, 294; Swedish songs, 295; operatic triumphs reviewed, 296; how our national heart was won, 297; IN THE PROVINCES, 298; studying at Burnham, 298; at Mr. Lumley’s _Fête champêtre_, 299; on tour, 300; _Dove sono_, 302; Swedish songs, 302; last weeks in England, 307; departure, 307; arrival at Berlin, 310; _La Sonnambula_, 310; farewell to Berlin stage, 310; appointed Prussian _Kammersängerin_, 311; last notes at Berlin, 311; religious convictions, 315; voice in normal splendour, 316; last appearance at Stockholm, 317; grief for the death of Mendelssohn, 320, 321; the Fund for the Theatre School, 321; engagement to Herr Günther, 322; broken off by mutual consent, 387; farewell to Sweden, 323; arrival in London, second season, 324; re-appearance at Her Majesty’s Theatre, 324; _Lucia_, 326; _I Puritani_, 327; unrivalled as a composer of _cadenze_, 327, 328; concert for Brompton Hospital, 332; on tour in England, 337, 338; at Leeds, 338; the Mendelssohn Foundation, 337, 339 _et seq._; performance of _Elijah_, 340; at Manchester, 342; at Birmingham, 342; Yule-tide at Crumpsall, 343; concert for Southern Hospital, Liverpool, 343; “Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children,” 343; at Norwich, 343; College Hall, Worcester, 344; list of charity concerts in nine weeks, 345; intended renunciation of Stage, 348; Lumley in despair, 349; a compromise, 349; re-appearance in Opera, 350; glorious reception, 350; the last farewell to the Stage, 350, 351, 352; THE METHOD, 355; quality of voice and vocal _technique_, 355, 356, 361; Norwegian Echo Song, 357; the basis of the voice, 357; indomitable perseverance, 357, 361; _cadenze_, 357; the shake, 358, 359; exercise on the shake, 358, 359; management of the breath, 359, 360; articulation, 360, 361; summary of eleven years’ work, 364, 365; the home of her adoption, 366; a kindly refuge, 369; as St. Cecilia, 369; influence of the Stanley family, 369 _et seq._; the Bishop’s bible, 371; WHY DID J. LIND LEAVE THE STAGE?, 376; the domestic instinct, 380; quotation from letter to Mme. Erikson on retirement, 381; to Josephson, 381; to Miss Behrens, 381; to Mme. Wichmann, 383; to Mme. Birch-Pfeiffer, 383; appeal from Rellstab, 383; resolved to leave the Stage, 384; visit to Mr. Joseph Grote, 387; engagement to Captain Harris, 388; Mr. Nassau Senior’s advice, 390; the settlements, 390; engagement broken off, 392; Paris, 393; cholera, 394; at Cologne—a crisis, 394; shattered nerves, 395; at Meran, 398; Berlin, 400; American contract signed, 405; last concert as J. Lind, 408; destination of “private or separate fund,” 408, 409; happy days, 410, 411, 422; with the Schumanns at Hamburg, 420 _et seq._; the Academic Union of Lund, 424; the Stockholm medal, 429, 430, 431; address, 430; Moreton Gardens, picture of J. Lind at St. Clara, Stockholm, 431; at Liverpool, 432; marriage, 448

Lind, Niclas Jonas, the father of J. Lind, 7, 8; resigns guardianship of, 97

Lindblad, Adolf F., the composer, opera by, 32; receives J. Lind into his home, 42; biographical sketch of, 42, 54; his influence on J. Lind, 55; his songs, 55, 297

Lindskog, Mdlle. Apollonia, 41; accompanies J. Lind to Dresden, 112, 113

Liverpool, J. Lind at, 343, 347, 433; departure from, 436; the _Messiah_ at, 347

Liverpool, the late Lord, on J. Lind, 155

Lona, Tante. _See_ Lindskog.

London, J. Lind’s arrival in, 262

_Lower Rhine Musical Festival_ (1846), _the_, 217–224

Lübeck, 402; American contract signed at, 405–407

Lumley, Mr., 229; affairs of H.M. Theatre, 231; letter of introduction to J. Lind for, from Mendelssohn, 232, _seq._; letter to Mendelssohn from, 234, 235; conditions of the Lumley Contract, 235, 236; managerial enterprise, 261, 287; anxiety for a new opera, 287; withdrawal of Mendelssohn, 287; Verdi’s _I Masnadieri_, 288; Lumley’s villa near Putney, 299; at Bath, 307; second contract with J. Lind, 307; the Bunn verdict, 318; on season of 1848, 329; liberality of, 332; her loyalty to, 390

Lund, University of, donation from J. Lind, 408

Lundberg, Mdlle. (a dancer at the R. Theatre, Stockholm), 12

M.

Magnus, Professor, portrait, of J. Lind, 195, 251; replica of the portrait, 196

Malvern Hills, cottage on the, bought, 408; Mme. Goldschmidt’s last illness at, 423, 424; her last notes, 423, 424

Manchester, J. Lind at, 338, 342, 432

Mario (famous tenor), revolts from Lumley, 260; memorable party at St. Petersburg, 285

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 2, 3; first meeting with J. Lind, 119; his opinion of J. Lind, 163; at Berlin, 177; concert at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 181, 182; his speech, 183; letter to J. Lind, 192, 208, 211; _Elijah_ unfinished, 212; correspondence with Hauser, 217, 223; further letters to J. Lind, 226, 230, 232, 238, 250, 256; last visit to England, 262; receives J. Lind, with Mrs. Grote, 262; produces _Elijah_, 262; disappointment as to Scribe’s _libretto_ for _La Tempesta_, 287; songs by, sung by J. Lind at Osborne, 295; death of, 320; influence of, on J. Lind, 321, 385; proposed School of Music in honour of, 337

Mendelssohn, Mme. Felix, 199; letters from J. Lind to, 396

Meran, J. Lind at, 398

“METHOD, THE,” 355–364

Meyerbeer, 2, 34; hears J. Lind in Paris, 87; his opinion of her, 89; anxiety to engage her for the Berlin Opera, 109; “enchanted” by her interpretation of his _Vielka_, 131; letter from, 142; his _Vielka_ at Vienna, 254, 255; in Paris, 393; his _Prophète_, 393

Mozart, the music of, 290; his _Recitativo secco_, 291, 293; J. Lind’s admiration of, 290

Munich, at, 238, 243, 244

Munthe, Carl, 95–97

Munthe, Judge H. M., 31; character of, 95; letters to, from Berlin, 116, 147, 177; letter to, from Stuttgard, 245; from London, 274; a noteworthy letter from J. Lind, 336; in Paris, and travelling with J. Lind, 394, 395; letters to, 410, 441

N.

New York, a day’s work in, 445, 446

Nienstädten, near Altona, J. Lind’s visits to, 168, 225

Nightingale, 43, 157, 164; “The Swedish,” 271; the beloved, 297; J. Lind’s, 298; the Northern, 412, 415

Nissen, Mdlle., 70; sings with J. Lind, 74, 75; her prospect of high reputation, 76

Norwich, 302; the Cathedral, 302; reception continued, 303, 304; at, 343

NOZZE DI FIGARO, LE, 290–293

Nuremberg, J. Lind at, 245

O.

Oak Lea, Wimbledon, 450

Œhlenschläger, the poet, 163

Oldenburg, J. Lind at, 415

_O Jugend, O schöne Rosenzeit_ (in Mendelssohn’s song), 412

Operas:— _Anna Bolena_, 64 _Armida_ (Gluck), 196 _Château de Menténero_ (Dalayrac), 36 _Divertissement National_ (Berwald), 97, 98 _Don Giovanni, Il_ (_Don Juan_), Berlin, 169 _Elisir d’Amore, L’_, 319; first time in London, 326 _Elves, The_ (Van Boom), 365 _Euryanthe_ (Weber), 43, 138, 139, 140 _Feldlager in Schlesien, Das_, 109, 111, 112; in Berlin, 131–133; at Vienna, 253 _Ferdinand Cortez_ (Spontini), 365 _Figlia del Reggimento_ (first appearance), 150; its special charm, 151; at Vienna, 248; in London, 282; at Berlin, 310; at Stockholm, 316; last performance, 350 _Freischütz, Der_ (Weber), 35, 36, 71, 148; at Berlin, 170; at Vienna, “an immense success,” 214; at Stockholm, 316; grand _Scena_ from, 360 _Frondörerne_ (Lindblad), 32 _Gazza Ladra, La_, 93 _Huguenots, Les_, 93; at Berlin, 189; Vienna version, _Die Ghibellinen in Pisa_, 214 _Jag går i Kloster_ (Berwald), 365 _Lucia di Lammermoor_, 43, 150; first time in England and _Times_ critique on, 325, 326 _Marie_ (Hérold), 43 _Masnadieri, I_, 288 _May Day in Wärend, A_, 97, 106 _Norma_, 64; at Stockholm, 92; at Berlin, 125–127; at Vienna, 205, 206; in London, 284 _Nozze di Figaro, Le_, 93, 243, 290; the _Recitativo secco_, 293 _Puritani, I_, first performance by J. Lind, 327; _Times_ critique upon, 328 _Roberto il Diavolo_, 34, 36, 41, 42; at Copenhagen, 102; at H.M. Theatre, 265 _et seq._; last performance, 350, 351 _Semiramide_ (Rossini), 93, 365 _Sonnambula, La_, at Stockholm, 93, 149; at Vienna, 207; ovation, 214, 215; in London, 278 _et seq._; second season in London, 324; last performance, 350, 351 _Swiss Family, The_ (Weigl), 63, 92 _Straniera, La_, 30, 63 _Turco in Italia, Il_ (Rossini), 150 _Vestale, La_ (Spontini), 36, 43; at Berlin, 184 _Vielka_ (_Das Feldlager in Schlesien_), at Vienna, 253; Fräulein von Jaeger’s account of, 253, 254; the famous Trio in, 253 _Zauberflöte, Die_, 63, 349

Opera Houses:— Berlin, 125, 169; final farewell, 310 Copenhagen, 102, 161 Dresden, 112 Hamburg (Stadt-Theater), 148 Hanover (Court Theatre), 225 Munich, 244 Stockholm, 149 _et seq._ Vienna, 204, 247

Operatic Parts. _See_ Operas.

Oratorio, J. Lind in, 376; “the wish of my heart,” 396

Oratorios:— Haydn’s _Creation_, Aix-la-Chapelle, 221, 223; Exeter Hall, 345, 452 Handel’s _Messiah_, Liverpool, 433; Halle, 451; (Rotterdam, 1855); Düsseldorf, 451; Exeter Hall, 452 —— _Alexander’s Feast_ (Aix-la-Chapelle), 221 Handel’s _L’Allegro ed Il Penseroso_, 452 —— _St. Cecilia_, Ode, Düsseldorf, 451 Mendelssohn’s _Elijah_ at Exeter Hall, 340, 452; at Düsseldorf, 415 Schumann’s _Paradise and the Peri_ at Düsseldorf (1855); in London, 451 Otto Goldschmidt’s _Ruth_, 452

Osborne, J. Lind at, 295

Oscar I. of Sweden, coronation of, 113; request to J. Lind, 400; letter from, 400, 401

P.

Paris, J. Lind in, 65; street cries of, 69; J. Lind’s opinion of, 81; Italian Opera, 76, 89; visit to, in 1849, 392

Pasta, Mme., _Norma_ written for, 125

Perman, Fru (Östersund, Sweden), 9

Persiani, Mme., J. Lind’s impressions of, 76; in revolt, 231; secedes from H.M. Theatre, 260

Pillet, Leon, Mons., Director, Grand Opera, Paris, 88; contradiction of false reports respecting, 90

Plays:— _Adèle de Sénanges_, 33 _American Monkey, The_, 35 _Angelo Malipieri_, 33 _Bride of the Capital, The_, 33 _Bride of the Tomb, The_, 33 _Death of Wallenstein, The_, 33 _Fausse Agnès, La_, 29 _Fisherman, The_, 33 _Foster-Son, The_, 30 _Jealous Wife_, 33 _Jenny Mortimer_, 33 _Johanna de Montfaucon_, 29 _Ludicrous Encounter, The_, 33 _Marie di Sivry_, 33 _New Bluebeard, The_, 32 _New Garrison, The_, 30 _Pasha of Suresne, The_, 29 _Polish Mine, The_, 25 _Sentinel, The_, 33 _Sons of King Edward, The_, 33, 35 _Students of Småland, The_, 29 _Testamentet_, 25–29 _Thirty Years of a Gambler’s Life_, 29 _Unknown Son, The_, 32 _Zoe_, 33 (To this list must be added certain ephemeral plays, or fragments of plays—to the number of about a dozen—not mentioned in the text.)

Pokorny, Director (Vienna), 158, 247; in despair, 205

Prince Consort, H.R.H. the late, 152, 155; at H.M. Theatre on J. Lind’s appearance, 265; state visit to the opera (_Norma_), 284, 350, 351

PROVINCES, IN THE, 298

Prussia, Princess of (the late Empress Augusta), 117

Puget, Mdlle. du, 73, 74

Puke, Count, 12, 13

Q.

QUEEN’S STATE VISIT TO THE OPERA, THE, 284

R.

Rachel, J. Lind on, 77

Redern, Graf von, 160; messages to, 399, 443

Reeves, Mr. Sims, 452

Rellstab, Ludwig, critic and poet, 126, 191; author of _libretto_ of Meyerbeer’s _Camp of Silesia_, 122; of Prologue for Festival performance of Weber’s _Euryanthe_, 139; his criticisms on J. Lind’s “Norma,” 126; “Euryanthe,” 140; “Agatha,” 171; “Julia,” in _La Vestale_, 184; “Valentine,” in _The Huguenots_, all at Berlin, 190; his notices on farewell performance second Berlin season, 196; in _La Sonnambula_ once more at Berlin (1847), 310; his protest against her retirement from the stage, 383; welcomes her back to Berlin and reviews her as a concert-singer, 417–420

Reyer, Mme., 116, 128

Rhine, the, 219 _et seq._

Ridderstolpe, Baroness, 116, 119, 128

Roger, M., the great French tenor, 337; “Mark this well,” 338; his “Le Carnet d’un Tenor,” 285

Rollet, Hermann, poet, 188

Rossi, Countess (Sontag), 116; fame of, 117, 417

Ruckman, Fröken Marie, 81

Ruffiaques, Mme., J. Lind’s hostess at Paris, 66, 73

S.

Sainton, M., on tour with Mr. and Mme. Goldschmidt, 451

Sassenay, Marquis and Marquise de (Aix-la-Chapelle), 220

Schiller, tomb of, 188; his _Die Räuber_ (Verdi’s _I Masnadieri_), 288

Scholarships:— “Geijer,” at Upsala University, 408 “Jenny Lind,” at the Stockholm Academies, 313, 314, 321 “Mendelssohn,” in London, 340 “Bishop Tegnér,” at Lund University, 408

Schrœder, Herr Schoeltz von, Prussian envoy to Denmark, 160

Schumann, Mme. Clara, at Leipzig, 200; at Vienna, 248; diary of, 249; introduced to Mme. Wichmann by J. Lind, 255; her diary recording their meeting and joint concerts at Hamburg, 420–422; concert in London, 452

Schumann, Dr. Robert, at Vienna, 248; at Hamburg, 420; his genius, 423; his songs, 420–422; his _An den Sonnenschein_, 421, 424

Schwabe, Mr. and Mme. Salis, at Manchester, 343, 373; with J. Lind at Liverpool, 432; letters to, 375, 398, 427

Schwerin, Court Theatre at, 149

Seminoff, Fräulein von, 422

Senior, Mr. Nassau, 266, 393; his advice and intervention, 390–392

Shake, the, 269; Queen Victoria’s remark on it, 280; Mme. Goldschmidt’s way of teaching it, with musical example, 358, 359

Soult, Mme. la Maréchale, 66

South Germany, 237

Spontini at Berlin, 170; his masterpiece, 184

St. Clara (parish of), at Stockholm, 7; singing at, 431

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (Dean of Westminster), descriptive letter from, 303–307

Stanley, Bishop, of Norwich, 301; invitation to J. Lind, 302; his watchful care of her, 369; farewell letter, 370; the Bishop’s present of a Swedish Bible, 371

——, Mrs. (the Bishop’s wife) motherly devotion to J. Lind, 369, 392; letters on her second visit to Norwich, 372, 373; conversation with, 388; J. Lind’s letters to, 353, 449

Staudigl, Herr, at Vienna, 205; in _Figaro_, at H.M. Theatre, 291

Stedingk, Fröken von, her Diary, 98, 109; on J. Lind’s return to Sweden in 1848, 313, 318; in 1850, 428, 429

Stockholm, Home for Widows of Burghers, 11; soirée at in 1839, 48, 50; J. Lind’s return to, 316, 428; Children’s Hospital at, 409

Students, the Göttingen, 412; letter to, from J. Lind, 413

Stuttgard, at, 243

_Suleika_ (Mendelssohn), 419

Sweden, bequest to, 313, 314, 408, 430

Swedish Songs, at Dresden, 113; at Berlin, 145; at Leipzig, 180, 181; at Buckingham Palace, and at Osborne, 295; at Norwich, 302; at Hanover, 411; in America, 442

Swedish Medal Committee and address, 429

T.

Taglioni, Mons. Paul, 109

Tamburini, 259, 260

Tasmania, Bishop Nixon of, 304, 306; J. Lind on, 371; letter to J. Lind, 371.

Taubert, Prussian Hof-Kapellmeister, at Leipzig, 192; Mendelssohn’s account of, 193; at Vienna, 213, 218; new song by, 311, 442; messenger to J. Lind from King of Prussia, 400

Tegnér, Bishop, Scholarships in memory of, 408

TEMPESTA, LA, 289

Tengmark, Fru, Jenny’s grandmother, 9, 10

Thalberg, Sigismund, a visitor at Clairville, 330; at Mrs. Grote’s, 368

Theatre, Royal, at Stockholm, 15; school of girls, 15, 16; directors of the, 16; J. Lind invited to sing for, by the King, 400

Tieck, the poet, an evening spent with him, 133

Topelius, the Finnish poet, 99

Tuczec, Fräulein, 122–125; the Zerlina of, 170; in the concert-room, 145, 418

U.

Upsala, J. Lind at, 37, 38; concert at, for Josephson, 107; University of, 408