The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-06
Christina Nn...n.
THE EARLY CAREER AND BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF A
MUSICAL GENIUS.

THE EARLY CAREER AND BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF
MUSICAL GENIUS.
Christina Nilsson, the young Swedish cantatrice,
who will visit the United States next fall, and
whom many excellent critics have unhesitatisgly
pronounced fully equal to Jenny Lind, Is of very
humble descent. NJ Mahslu gives in his work,
" Les Jolies Actrices de Paris" the following
interesting sketch Of her past life:
II is showing. The skies, all black as they are
with night and cold. commence turning gray in
the east. After awhile the sun rises in the mist.
vague bueish light seems TO descend sith the
snow fakes. Here and there pines and birches,
covered with iccles, tremble and moan in the
wind. In a sort Of ravine are to be seen q 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 of ravens on the dazzling
We are far from Paris, fifty leagues from Stock
holm, in miserable village of the provinces OF
Smaand.
Let us enter one Of the novels. which seem to
have been made rather for wild bears than for
meu.
The poor people here live 10 the same room
with their cattle. miserable stove emlts painful
sounds in the middle of the floor. On the ground,
in motley group, lie gOats sheep and children,
stretching their necks wistfuy towards the kettle
on the hearth. These children are dressed in
rags. Under q window ia the roof sits the
mother spinning. The father, smoking pipe,
sits in the corner Of the ROOM Ever now and
then are heard from without the merry sounds Of
jingling sleigh bells, or the dull noise Of horse
galloping past, sleigh darts past with lghtning
speed. In the same manner there appears and
disappears a fur cap. fur robe a fur Jacket then
the fathers voice drowns the noise of the spin
ming wheel, the seething kettle on the hearth, and
the Kissing green wood in the stove.
Christina ~
From the group of children there energies the
shapely head of a very pretty girl, surrounded by
a crown Of straw-colored soft and silky hair.
" Christina, take your violin and go to the
height!r
In this manner Christina Nilsson entered upon
her career an artistic. What contrast be-
tween the highways on which she once, when
little girl, played the violin, and the magnificent
salon In which an enthusiastic audience nov
lavishes applause on the great cantatrice And
yet not more than ten years have elapsed sinos
her debut.
Ten years ago a Distinguished Swedish gentle
man sscended that height, heard the little peasant
girl play the VIOLIN caused her 70 condact him to
her father and said to him, Nilsson, want to
make you an offer. You daughter is talented
child. lDtrust her 10 me, and am sure | can
make great artistic of herr Old Nilsson, a sharp
and cleai-beaded peasant, knew full well that his
daughter possessed extraordinary musical talents;
and iDasmuch as the aristocratic stranger gave
him several gold pieces. and promised to send him
more money from time to time, he did not hesitate
long. aud little Christina, after bidding farewell to
Der 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.
the ,ci,v ~ Cso,banbn-o ,bsra a naw or,a, ma.
nnycbssed for bar9 ana WHARF evervbodg rba
tary her in ber new dress sycJaimsd % gb.t an
ext,aora;ns,y nre,,v child - Hs, nro,oc,o- ,haa
,ook ber 70 a boardno school wbara shs wss -
inSnstTions and made such rand nrograss ,hs,
wear af,erward she conld Arcade he sant 10 ssoct
holm where She studied music. and where ali nro-
fessors ana mns,c;sns who hes-d hsr s;nr -
deIed AZ her exceedngIv gres, talents ana ss;d
that at length a vortbv snccessor az Jannv I;nd
had been fennd TTno5 her Hrst annas,a aca ' a.
nnbhc Concert where she sang a ~ - simnIa "a.
tional songs she Electrified the whoIa snd;s,.a
md elicited the most rsntnrons snnIanse FinsIsv'
when her professors in stockholm oonld No ioogs,,
teach her anything new abe went IN "a IA vhers
Pr, fessor WareI completed her rnnsical I'd
and where She soon AFTER achieved sneb m srvslon:
triup,pbs on the Stage of the Theatre Lvrioue.
And what a difference there il bet ween that
wretched room In the low hoyel In the svedfsh
Province of smaIand. ana the apartmenta in vbioh
the captatrice now liyesI -'s-
Her apar,ments are on the fourth floor Of n Iargs
and very fine house ia the Rue de RiVoli. and the
Tnileries are 10 he seen from the wiodows Of the