Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-06

The Early. Career and brilliant
cd Success of a Musical Genius.
Christina Nilsson, the young Spanish
cantatrice, who will visit the Uuited
States next fall, and whom many excel
lent musical critics have unhesitatingly
pronounced fully equal to Jenny Lind, is
of very, humble descent M. Mahalin
gives in his, work, Les Jolses Actraces de
Paris, the following interesting sketch
Of her past life.1s Cd iiiw ,nailosz3el
1t is showing. The skies, all black
as they areswith night and lcold,r COM
mence turning grey in the East. After
a while the sun rises in the mist. A
vague Blush light seems to descend
with the snow. fakes. Here and there,
pines and birches covered with icicles
tremble and moan, in the wind. In
sort of rayine are to be seen a few
wretched cabins from the snow-clad
roofs, made of bark, ascend blue clouds
of smoke; those who look out of the low
windows of these cabins behold flock
ofrayens on the dazzling white plain9 2
we, are far from Paris, fifty leagues
from Stockholm I'M miserable village
of the provincessof Smaland.E
4siI,et us enter one of, these novels, (which
seem to have been made rather for wild
boars than for men. s'sAl 80 a'i''91' 90
The poor people here live in the same
fooIn with their cattle. a miserable
stove enits painful sounds in the middle
of the floor. On the ground, in motley
group, lie goats, sheep and children,
stretching their necks iwistfully toward
the kettle on the hearth. These chill
dren are dressed in rags. Under win
dow in the roof sits themother spinning.
Fhe father, smoking a pipe, sits in a
corner of the room. Every now and
then are heard from without, the merry
sounds Of jingling sleigh bells, or the
dull noise Of a horse galloping past, q
sleigh darts past with lightning speed.
In the same manner there appears and
disappears fur cap, fur robe, fur
Jacket. them the fathers voice browns
the noise of the spinning wheel, the
seething kettle on the hearth, and the
kissing green wood in the stove.
- Christina p 80 - 80
From. the group Of. children there
emerges the shapely head Of a very
pretty girl, surrounded by crown Of
straw-colored, soft and silky hair.
"Christina. take your violin and 60
to the heighti''q-92 70 i1ifoi -
In this manner Christina Nilsson en-
tered upon. her career as an artistic
What contrast between the highway
on which she, once, when little girl,
played the violin, and the magnificent
salon in which an enthusiastic audience
now lavishes applause on the cantatrice!
And vet moi more than ten years have
elapsed since her debWt. asee y 55s 55e.sg -
ae len years ago distinguished Swed-
ish gentleman assembled that height,
heard the little peasant girl play the yio-
lin; caused her to- conduct him to her
father. and said to him, Nilsson, / want
to make YOU an offer. Your daughter is
a talented child. Entrust her to me, and
lam sure can make a great artiste OF
her.n'e,.4fs hfjdr Is s5.i fft sa.1aieHal sa7di
.ae.'Old Nilsson sharp and clear+head-
ed peasant, knew full we'll that his
daughter possessed extraordinary music
al talents; and inasmuch as the aristo-
cratic stranger gave him several gold
pieces, and promised to send him more
money from time to time, he did not
hesitate long, and little Christina, after
bidding farewell to her parents ard
brothers and sisters, and shedding few
tears, accompanied the gentleman who
had already won her young heart by the
kindness with which he treated her. Two
DAYS afterward Christina reached with
him the city of Gothenburg. where new
outfit was purchased for her. and where
exclaimed, "What an. extraordinary
pretty child" Her protector then took
her 10 d boarding school, where she was
SO industrious and made such rapid pro-
.gress that ., year .afterward she could
already be sent to Stockholm where she
studied music, and where all professors
and musicians who heard her sing won
dered at her exceeding talents, and
said that at length q worthy successor