PATTI (Adelina, 1843-1919, Italian Soprano)

Autograph Sentiment Signed in her married name ‘Adelina Patti Cederström’ “Music is the outflow of a beautiful mind”, 1 side 8vo., on paper with a blue and silver crested monogram and the address, Craig-Y-Nos Castle, Breconshire, South Wales,

Patti's last marriage, in 1899, was to Baron Rolf Cederström (1870–1947), a priggish, but handsome, Swedish aristocrat many years her junior. The Baron severely curtailed Patti's social life. He cut down her domestic staff from 40 to 18, but gave her the devotion and flattery that she needed, becoming her sole legatee. After her death, he married a much younger woman. Their only daughter, Brita Yvonne Cederström (born 1924), ended up as Patti's sole heir. In her retirement, Patti, now officially Baroness Cederström, settled in the Swansea Valley in Wales, where she purchased Craig-y-Nos Castle. There she had a $2000 billiard table installed, and her own private theatre, a miniature version of the one at Bayreuth, and made her gramophone recordings.

Item Date:  1917

Stock No:  41910      £200

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