Hilda Maria Lund (

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Lindh, 21 December 18407 October 1911) was a Swedish

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. Lund was a ballet student in 1849, a second dancer in 1861 and elevated to a premier ballerina in 1866–1888. She performed the leading parts of many of the ballets staged at the royal opera in the 1870s and 1880s and was in 1887 described as "the acknowledged most distinguished female dancer of the royal opera".Europas konstnärer
/ref> She was an instructor at the ballet in 1889–1894. She married her colleague, the ballet master

Sigurd Harald Lund Sigurd Harald Lund (1823-1906), was a ballet dancer, choreographer and director. He was Ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gusta ...

, in 1862.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Hilda 1840 births History of theatre Swedish ballerinas 19th-century Swedish ballet dancers 1911 deaths Royal Swedish Ballet dancers