Marcella Lindh (May 19, 1867 – July 30, 1966) was the stage name of an American

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

singer who was Rose Jacobson Jellinek in private life.

Early life

Rose Jacobson was born in

Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolit ...

, the daughter of Johanna Cohen Jacobson and Solomon E. Jacobson. Her parents were both born in

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.Christine Bariahtaris
"The Family of E. M. Jellinek: Documenting a History"
''Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 36th Annual SALIS Conference'' (May 1, 2014): 55-61. She trained as a singer in

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Career

Marcella Lindh was the first soprano to sing with the John Philip Sousa Band, joining when the band formed in 1892 and staying into 1894. She sang with the Sousa band at the St. Louis World's Fair in the autumn of 1893. A Pennsylvania newspaper during this time praised her voice as "one of the few incomparable soprano voices of the generation...cultivated to such a nicety of perfection, as makes it a charm to the cultivated ear." She sang with Hinrich's Grand Opera in Boston in the spring of 1893.Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby
''The History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901''
(Houghton Mifflin Company 1908): 404, 424. She performed in a series of Wagner operas in German with the New York Symphony under

Walter Damrosch Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862December 22, 1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Ge ...

, at the Boston Theatre and at the Metropolitan Opera House. Soon after, she moved to

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

(in

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) with her husband and young son. She taught voice at a conservatory there, and continued performing. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

she was "an official visitor for the American Red Cross mission in Hungary.""Tells of Conditions in Hungary Under Soviet"
''Indianapolis News'' (June 30, 1920): 15. via Newspapers.com Marcella Lindh returned to the United States in 1920, and again in widowhood during

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. She lived in

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

in her later years.

Personal life

Rose Jacobson married Markus Erwin Marcel Jellinek, a theatre manager and publisher from

. Their son,

E. Morton Jellinek Elvin Morton "Bunky" Jellinek (15 August 1890 – 22 October 1963), E. Morton Jellinek, or most often, E. M. Jellinek, was a biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoholism researcher, fluent in nine languages and able to communicate in four othe ...

, became a noted expert on

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. They also had a daughter, Edna. Marcella Lindh was widowed when her husband died in 1939, in Budapest. She died in 1966, aged 99 years, in a Michigan nursing home."American Lark Dies at Age 99"
''Hillsdale Daily News'' (August 1, 1966): 9. via Newspapers.com

References

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