Joanna Maria Lindehleim

Joanna Lindehleim who performed as the Baroness (16?? – 1724) was a singer in London who was born abroad. She came to notice in about 1703. She was known as the wife of a Swedish baron named Andrew Lenduss of Lendenheim.

Life The details of her early life are unknown. She was advertised as Italian, which was very fashionable for singers, however Charles Burney thought she was only trained in Italy and she was maybe born in Germany. and then at Drury Lane and each time she sang with Gasparo Visconti. In 1702 she and her husband, Andrew Lenduss of Lendenheim, also appears to have given birth and buried a son Andrew. She was one of the singers. In 1706 she was at Drury Lane where she sang Giovanni Bononcini’s Camilla. This latter piece was arranged by the Italian cellist and composer Nicola Francesco Haym. Her name seems to have been a continued confusion and she was billed as "Mrs Joanna Maria" and later when the score for Camilla was printed she was credited as "The Baroness". This latter name was assumed again when she performed Camilla again in 1707 at Drury Lane and again when she was at the Queens Theatre in the Haymarket in 1708. Haym died in 1729.

Lindehleim died in London in December 1724.