Lovisa Augusti

Lovisa Sofia Augusti, (born Ester Salomon; Germany 1756 – 25 June in Stockholm, 1790), was a Swedish opera singer. She was a court singer (Hovsångare) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The daughter of Israel Salomon, a traveling Jewish musician from Germany, Lovisa had already made a name for herself in her childhood as a singer in Gothenburg. Lovisa Augusti is first mentioned in Varberg in 1766, where she sang "Italian arias" while her fourteen year old brother played the violin. In 22 February 1767, she performed as a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician fo the Hovkapellet. She converted to Christianity in Gothenburg in 1767, when she received the name Lovisa Sofia Salmoni at her baptismal. The conversion was...