Marie von Stedingk
Maria "Marie" Frederica von Stedingk was a Swedish composer and courtier.
Life
Stedingk was born in Saint Petersburg to the Swedish field marshal and count Kurt von Stedingk and his Swedish housekeeper Ulrika Fredrika Ekström. Her parents married five years after her birth. She died unmarried.She was given a high education by private teachers by her progressive father, who wished for all his children to be well educated regardless of gender.
She served as a hovfröken to the queen of Sweden, Désirée Clary, in 1823–1860.
Among her compositions are the Nocturne för melodiinstrument.
The composer Mathilda d'Orozco dedicated her composition Sex Sånger för Piano to her in 1842.