COLLAN, MARIA (, Helsinki-, Helsinki), singer and voice teacher, daughter of Fredrik Pacius and wife of composer Karl Collan (–).
Maria Collan performed from the age of seventeen in her father's concerts, where she performed songs by both her father, and later, her husband. Her formal training did not begin, however, until her husband's untimely death in 1871, after which time she spent several years in Germany with her parents. Then she...