Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
After her husband’s death in 1758 she took the reins of government, and held them so well that Saxe-Weimar was able speedily to recover from the effects of the Seven Years’ War, and escaped the famine of 1773.
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Henriette Sontag
German opera singer – after singling in Berlin in 1825, her career was one unbroken triumph.
Maria Malibran
Spanish singer.
Etelka Gerster
Hungarian singer
Clara Schumann
German musician, composer, and pianist.
Anne Boleyn
Queen of England, one of the wives of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I.
Teresa Carreño
Celebrated Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor
Thérèse Tietjens
Hungarian prima donna
Clara Louise Kellogg
American singer
Adelina Maria Patti
Renowned Italian vocalist