Marcella Lindh
{{Short description|American soprano (1867–1966)}}
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Rose Jacobson Jellinek (May 19, 1867 – July 30, 1966), known professionally as Marcella Lindh, was an American soprano singer.
Early life
Rose Jacobson was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the daughter of Johanna Cohen Jacobson and Solomon E. Jacobson. Her parents were both born in Mecklenburg, Germany.Christine Bariahtaris, [http://salis.org/salisjournal/vol1/55_Bariahtaris_2014.pdf "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 Berlin.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18225683/marcella_lindh_1895/ "An American Forest Bird"] New-York Tribune (March 3, 1895): 21. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
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.Jack Kopstein, [https://militarymusic.com/blogs/military-music/13516281-songbirds-of-the-john-philip-sousa-band "Songbirds of the John Philip Sousa Band"] Altissimo! Recordings (March 20, 2013). She sang with the Sousa band at the St. Louis World's Fair in the autumn of 1893.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CL3QAAAAMAAJ&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=PA511 "The Exposition at St. Louis"] Frank Leslie's Magazine (October 1893): 511. 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."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18225462/marcella_lindh_1892/ "Chats by the Way"] Wilkes-Barre Daily Times (December 3, 1892): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
She sang with Hinrich's Grand Opera in Boston in the spring of 1893.Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ5NAAAAMAAJ&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=PA404 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,"The Season of Wagner Opera" New York Times (December 1, 1894): 4. {{ProQuest| }} at the Boston Theatre and at the Metropolitan Opera House.Harry P. Mawson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CNQ2AQAAMAAJ&dq=Marcella%20Lindh&pg=PA283 "Wagner Opera in German"] The Peterson Magazine (March 1895): 283. Soon after, she moved to Budapest (in Austria-Hungary) with her husband and young son. She taught voice at a conservatory there,[https://books.google.com/books?id=7SIqQHZL2_wC&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=RA3-PA35 "Eddy Brown Admires Marcella Lindh Jellinek"] Musical Courier (July 24, 1919): 35. and continued performing.Alma Mahler-Werfel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wtjKt3LGAQgC&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=PA75 Diaries, 1892–1902] (Cornell University Press 2000): 75. {{ISBN|9780801486647}} During World War I she was "an official visitor for the American Red Cross mission in Hungary."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18225333/marcella_lindh_jellinek_1920/ "Tells of Conditions in Hungary Under Soviet"] Indianapolis News (June 30, 1920): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
Marcella Lindh returned to the United States in 1920,[https://books.google.com/books?id=0PM6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=RA9-PA31 "Mme. Lindh Endorsed by Hubay"] Musical Courier (September 29, 1921): 31. and again in widowhood during World War II. She lived in Detroit, Michigan in her later years.Paul E. Bierley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=J2gdCa_4d2gC&dq=Marcella+Lindh&pg=PA68 The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa] (University of Illinois Press 2006): 68. {{ISBN|9780252031472}}
Personal life
Rose Jacobson married Markus Erwin Marcel Jellinek, a theatre manager and publisher from Budapest. Their son, E. Morton Jellinek, became a noted expert on alcoholism."Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek Dead at 73; Leader in Alcoholism Research" New York Times (October 23, 1963): 41. {{ProQuest| }} 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.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18224532/marcella_lindh_jellinek_1966/ "American Lark Dies at Age 99"] Hillsdale Daily News (August 1, 1966): 9. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
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Category:19th-century American women opera singers
Category:20th-century American women opera singers
Category:American expatriates in Austria-Hungary
Category:American expatriates in Germany
Category:American operatic sopranos
Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
Category:Musicians from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Category:Singers from Michigan