‘For me she opened the sanctuary of art.’ In Clara Schumann’s estimation, ‘Lind has a genius for song such as can appear hardly once in centuries’. ‘No book or personality whatever has exerted a more ennobling influence on me, as a poet, than Jenny Lind,’ wrote Hans Christian Andersen. Cultural figures placed her at the pinnacle of her art. To describe the extent of her fame we might have to use a term such as ‘global celebrity’ or ‘megastar’.
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