Maria Antonia "Marie Antoinette" Petersén

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''Crux'', (1771–1855), was a Swedish musician (

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist) and singer. She was a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music ( sv, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. At the time of its foundation, only one of its co-founder was a professional musician, Ferdin ...

. Marie Antoinette Petersén was born in Germany, possibly in

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. In 1795, she married the Swedish miniaturist Jacob Axel Gillberg and moved with him to

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. After one and a half year, she was abandoned by Gillberg. She supported herself by keeping a girl's pension and by giving concerts. She was a singer and played the piano, but she was most admired as a violinist. In 1801 and 1802, she performed for

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph (1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837) was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland. The occupation of Finland in 1808–09 ...

during his visit to Gothenburg. In 1802, she divorced Gillberg and remarried Johan Andreas Petersén, the son of a rich merchant in Gothenburg. Marie Antoinette Petersén was elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 1801.

References

* Anna Ivarsdotter Johnsson och Leif Jonsson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Frihetstiden och Gustaviansk tid 1720–1810'' (Music in Sweden. The age of Liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810) * Wilhelm Berg: Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar / Band 2. 1794–1816 (1896–1900) * Jacob Axel Gillberg, urn:sbl:13067, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Sven Sandström), hämtad 2015-03-07. {{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Marie 1771 births 1855 deaths 18th-century violinists 19th-century classical violinists 18th-century Swedish women singers 19th-century Swedish women singers Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Swedish classical violinists Women classical violinists Gustavian era people 18th-century Swedish women musicians 19th-century Swedish women musicians