Amanda Swenson

Madame
Amanda Swenson
B&W photo of a middle-aged woman wearing a long dress, reclining at a piano
Background information
Birth nameAmanda Carlsson
Born1852
Nyköping, near Stockholm, Sweden
DiedJanuary 11, 1919
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Occupations
  • Singer
  • teacher
InstrumentVoice
Formerly ofSwedish Ladies' Quartette
SpouseAnders Swenson

Amanda Swenson (1852 – January 11, 1919) was a Swedish-born American soprano singer and teacher.[1] A member of the Swedish Ladies' Quartette as a young woman, she was a voice teacher in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. where her Ladies' Chorus won the Eisteddfods.

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "SWENSON, Mrs. Amanda Carlson". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 703. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.