Henriette Nissen-Saloman

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Henriette Nissen-Saloman, (Gothenburg 1819-1879), was a Swedish singer (mezzosoprano) and singing pedagogue.

Henriette was a student of organist Georg Günther in Gothenburg before she went to Paris in 1838, where she learned singing from Manuel Garcia and piano from Frederic Chopin. She debuted as Elvira in Don Juan at the Comedie-Italienne in Paris in 1842. She toured Europe in 1844-1855 before she was employed at the Italian Opera at Saint Petersburg in Russia in 1859, where she was an instructor at the conservatory until 1873. She was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1870 and rewarded Litteris et Artibus in 1871. She married the Danish composer Siegfried Saloman in 1850.