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Emilie
Hammarskjöld made a grand tour of America and became very successful. She organized and performed a concert at Armory Hall in Washington, D.C. in February 1845, where she performed as a singer and a concert pianist. The success she achieved both as a singer and a pianist made it possible for
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In 1838, she debuted as a singer and a pianist as well, and held public concerts in both capacities. In 1841, she founded her own music institute in
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and his wife Ulrica (Bouck) Brendler (1803–1841). She took music lessons from the composer and musical instructor Erik Drake (1788–1870), and singing lessons from the composer and organist Johan Peter
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Christian Holmberg and Aurora Emelie Hellgren. Her parents divorced in 1823, and she was supported by her mother, a successful businesswoman who founded and managed her own library.
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Emilie
Holmberg composed seven collected works of which five are preserved. They are made in a romantic style with inventive melodies and surprising turns. Her most known compositions were:
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Augusta Kristina (Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson, "Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon / I:509" 1906)
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brass foundry. However, her new spouse was bankrupt, and after the wedding, they emigrated to the United States because of her husband's creditors.
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