Louise Pyk was a Swedish opera singer.

Daughter of sea captain Nils Pyk. She studied music in Helsingborg

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, on the Royal College of Music, Stockholm

Royal College of Music, Stockholm

The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...

 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 and as a student of Fritz Arlberg before she debuted at the Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera

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 in 1874. She was a student of Viardot-Garcia in Paris

Paris

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 (1875), for Trevulsi in Milan

Milan

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 (1877) and of Stockhausen

Julius Stockhausen

Julius Christian Stockhausen was a German singer and singing master.- Life :Stockhausens' parents, Franz Stockhausen Sr...

 in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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From 1878 to 1883, she was employed at the Covent Garden Theatre in London

London

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; she was also active at the Italian Opera

Her Majesty's Theatre

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 in London, and toured in Great Britain

Great Britain

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 during the winter. She performed in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and at the Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. The first Gewandhaus was built in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe. The second opened on 11 December 1884, and was destroyed in the...

 in Leipzig

Leipzig

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. She was recommended for her strong voice, posture and mimique.

She married the William B. Newson, captain in the British army, in 1884.