
''Mathilda'' Valeria Beatrix d'Orozco also by marriage known as Cenami, Montgomery-Cederhjelm and Gyllenhaal, (14 June 1796 – 19 October 1863) was a Swedish (originally Spanish-Italian)
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and
salonist, composer, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and
harpsichordist
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.
Biography
Mathilda was born in Italy to the Spanish
ambassador
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in Milan,
Count
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Nicolas Blasco d'Orozco and Sabina Lederer. She was first married to
marquess
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Cenami, Stable Master of the court of the sister of
Napoleon
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, Princess
Elisa Bonaparte, while she was appointed lady-in-waiting to Elisa. She was widowed before she was twenty. In 1817 in
Vienna
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, she married second to the Swedish Count
colonel
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Josias Montgomery-Cederhjelm (d. 1825), with whom she had four children. In 1839, she married the Swedish
Baron
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Carl Alexander Fredrik Gyllenhaal.
In connection with her second marriage (1817), Mathilda d'Orozco moved to Sweden, where she was to live the rest of her life. In Sweden, she became a noted socialite in the capital, later called ''"one of the most noted ornaments in the salons of high society during the first happy and vibrant period of the reign of
Charles XIV John"'' (reign 1818–1844). Used to the warmer climate of Italy, she once remarked : ''"God was angry when he created the Swedish climate!"''
She was described as a warm person with great charm and talent within many fields of art, which she developed in her hectic social life.
As a member of the nobility, she was presented at the royal court, and took part in the court life of King Charles John and Queen
Désirée, where she became a centre of the court's entertainment. She was an admired, versatile singer, who sometimes accompanied her singing by playing the harp; she also took part in the
amateur theatre
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of the royal court, where she was described as an actress ''hors ligne'', and was seen as a natural, fairylike dancer.
The Crown Prince,
Oscar
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, as well as the British ambassador
John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield were counted among her admirers.
After her third marriage (1839), she withdrew from society life and moved to her husband's estate out in the countryside, except for annual visits to the
Norrtälje
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seaside resort. She died, aged 67, at
Stora Ekeby,
Rytterne, Sweden.
Gustaf Lagerbjelke
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dedicated to her the poem "L'une et l'autre".
Works
Songs- and piano compositions
She wrote numerous texts for piano and singing:
*Axels monolog (text by
Esaias Tegnér, dedicated to
Charlotte Åkerhielm)
*Frithiofs lycka (text by
Esaias Tegnér)
*Fogelleken (text av
Esaias Tegnér) (Stockholm, 1829)
*Fyra sånger med accompagnement af Piano forte. (dedicated to
Charlotte Åkerhielm, 1829)
**1. Stjernsången (Tegner)
**2. Wågen (
Karl August Nicander)
**3. Drömmen till Laura (Beskow)
**4. Jag vill ej drömma mer (Beskow)
*Sånger med accompagnement för Pianoforte
Songs with notes for pianoforte'(dedicated to
Carlotte von Kraemer, 1833)
**Jag gick med lyran i min hand (
Carl Wilhelm Böttiger)
**"Dit bort"
**Vår
**Afskeds önskan
**Kärlek eller vänskap (
Thomas Moore
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)
*Sånger med accompagnement för Pianoforte (dedicated to
Fredrika Bremer, 1834)
**Säg hvar finns ett enda troget hjerta
**Echo i Ådalen
**Gå ej bort.
*Fyra sångstycken för piano-forte (1839)
**Galer slafven (C. C. G.)
**Romanza
**Hambo polska
**Hoppet
*Sånger vid pianoforte (dedicated to her daughter Eugenie)
**Negerflickans klagan
**Nordens kämpe
**Den blinda sångarn
**Duo, or ''Hoppet än med klara strålar''
**Fyren.
*Sex sånger vid Piano-Forte (dedicated to
Marie von Stedingk, 1842)
**Frågan (X.)
**Indiansk waggvisa (H. H.)
**Du är borta (M. M.)
**Den öfvergifna (R. Hjärne)
**Galloppen
**Han kommer ej (L. Bn o.)
*Sveriges främsta Ädling. (text
Carl Wilhelm Böttiger, dedicated to
Magnus Brahe (1790–1844), 1845)
*Barcarolle (1861)
*Sånger vid Fortepiano (dedicated to
Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland)
**Lilla Fogeln
**Illusionen
**Den vissnade Blomman
**Min Philosophi
**Wikings-sången (
Herman Sätherberg)
**Dryckes-Wisa
**Afsked från Hemmet (Herman Sätherberg)
*Fyra sånger vid piano (dedicated to
Oscar II)
**Främlingens syn (
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
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)
**"Italia" (
Carl Wilhelm Böttiger)
**Höstqvällen
**Wikinga-sången (G.H.S.)
*Fyra sånger vid piano-forte (1839)
**Romance (Je vous l'ai dit, je vous adore)
**Strödda tankar (
Karl August Nicander)
**I recitativ manér (Era l'ora che volge il desiro) (text from
Inferno (Dante)
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)
**Strömmen (
Johan Gabriel Carlén)
*Sju sånger vid piano (1856)
**Jag följer dig
**Champagne-ruset (
Wilhelm von Braun)
**Om hundra år (S_dt)
**"Qvinnoögat" (
Wilhelm von Braun)
**"Till min Dotter!"
**"Lycklig du!" (L_a)
**Någonstädes gumman Lenngren säger (E. S_dt)
*''Vid Julbrasan för några år sedan'' (P. K. L., 1854)
*Povera Italia mia!.
*Den bedragna.
*La Serenata Contadinesca con risporta dalla Finestra
*Rings Drapa.
Piano music
*Hussar-Marsch, Norstedt & söner, Stockholm, 1854.
*Svenska arméns Revelje och Tapto (1865)
Poems
*Dikter (1870)
References
External links
Europas konstnärer''runeberg.org''
''runeberg.org''
''runeberg.org''
Further reading
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1796 births
1863 deaths
19th-century Italian classical composers
19th-century Italian singers
19th-century Italian women singers
19th-century Swedish poets
19th-century Swedish women musicians
19th-century Swedish women writers
Gyllenhaal family
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Italian women classical composers
Italian harpsichordists
Italian salon-holders
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