NYBERG, HENRIETTA (–), piano teacher, one of the first Finnish women to study music abroad, and founder of the first Finnish music school.
Henrietta Nyberg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1856 to 1858, despite her father's objections to such nonsense for women. Musicologist Ilmari Krohn (see KROHN, ILMARI) was her nephew and one of her students. According to him, Aunt Jetta's mother wrote to her in Leipzig saying that music educator Fredrik Pacius (see PACIUS, FREDRIKPACIUS, FREDRIK...