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Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783)

Charlotta Seuerling

Swedish musician and writer

Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling, was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling. Her first name…
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Harpsichord

Plucked-string keyboard instrument

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one or more strings. The strings are under tension on a…
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