Jenny Lind (Classic Reprint): A Record and Analysis of the Method of the Late Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt

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Musical Appendix with which that work was supplemented, with the view of ensuring their preservation to posterity and it is believed that this end will be still farther secured by their publication, with the addition of a few more examples, in a separate form. It is in the hope of attaining this object that the following pages are presented to the public, in full assurance that the rising generation of vocalists cannot fail to be profited by the study of Solfeggi, and other like passages, bequeathed to the world by one of the greatest singers of the present century. In order that this desirable result may be the more certainly obtained, it is necessary that the Cadenze in question should be prefaced by a clear and categorical account of certain circum stances connected with the timbre and compass of Mdlle. Lind's voice, and some of the more important characteristics of her method of voice-production; including some points which, before the publication of the work above alluded to, were known only to a few of her intimate friends.