Brita Catharina Lidbeck

Brita Catharina Lidbeck, also Brita Catharina Munck af Rosenschöld (1788 – 2 March 1864) was a Swedish Dilettante concert singer. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.[1]

She was the daughter of Petrus Munck af Rosenschöld, bishop in Lund. She married Anders Lidbeck, professor in Lund, in 1817. She was a student of the opera singer Karl Magnus Craelius, and made her public debut at a concert arranged by him in Stockholm in 1813. Brita Catharina Lidbeck was a non-professional concert singer. She performed at charity concerts and in musical societies. She was inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1827. She performed in public for the last time on a charity concert to the benefit of the students of the Royal Academy of Music the 6 March 1842. Singers from the royal academy performed at her funeral.