Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née

NEE

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 Cohn

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(9 March 1798 in Helsinki

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 in Finland

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 - 3 May 1877 in Stockholm

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, was a Finnish and Swedish concert

Concert

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 singer. She was later appointed official singer (Hovsångare

Hovsångare

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) of the Swedish royal court.

She married the Swedish concert musician Johan Fredrik Berwald

Johan Fredrik Berwald

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 in 1817. She toured with her husband and performed as a singer at his concerts. She educated her three daughters Fredrique, Julie Mathilda

Julie Berwald

Julie Mathilda Berwald was a Swedish concert and opera singer.Born to the concert singer Mathilda Berwald and the musician Johan Fredrik Berwald. She and her sisters Fredrique and Hedvig Eleonora was educated to singers by their mother and sang with her at their fathers concerts...

 and Hedvig Eleonora as singers. She performed with her husband and Fredrique at the Opera in Berlin for Spontini, and then for the Royal Danish family, in 1833. In 1834, she was given the title of first singer of the royal Swedish court. They toured in Finland (1842), Denmark

Denmark

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(1844) and made a great success in Berlin (1847).