Editing Marian Anderson (section)

===European tours===
Anderson went to Europe, where she spent a number of months studying with [[Sara Cahier|Sara Charles-Cahier]] and [[Geni Sadero]]<ref name="Allan Keiler" /> before launching a highly successful European singing tour.<ref name="New journal and guide"/> In the summer of 1930, she went to [[Scandinavia]], where she met the Finnish pianist [[Kosti Vehanen]], who became her regular accompanist and her vocal coach for many years. She also met [[Jean Sibelius]] through Vehanen after he had heard her in a concert in [[Helsinki]]. Moved by her performance, Sibelius invited them to his home and asked his wife to bring champagne in place of the traditional coffee. Sibelius complimented Anderson on her performance; he felt that she had been able to penetrate the Nordic soul. The two struck up an immediate friendship, which further blossomed into a professional partnership, and for many years Sibelius altered and composed songs for Anderson. He created a new arrangement of the song "Solitude" and dedicated it to Anderson in 1939. Originally ''The Jewish Girl's Song'' from his 1906 incidental music to ''[[Belshazzar's Feast (Sibelius)|Belshazzar's Feast]]'', it later became the "Solitude" section of the orchestral suite derived from the incidental music.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/laulut_6.htm | title=Arrangements for voice and piano | publisher=The Finnish Club of Helsinki | access-date=February 23, 2007 | archive-date=September 27, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190523/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/laulut_6.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/ork_muita_belsazar.htm | title=Belshazzar's Feast | publisher=The Finnish Club of Helsinki | access-date=February 23, 2007 | archive-date=September 27, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190614/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/ork_muita_belsazar.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1933, Anderson made her European debut in a concert at [[Wigmore Hall]] in London, where she was received enthusiastically. In the first years of the 1930s, she toured Europe, where she did not encounter the prejudices she had experienced in America.{{sfn|Keiler|2000|page=76}} Anderson, accompanied by Vehanen, continued to tour throughout Europe during the mid-1930s. Before going back to Scandinavia, where fans had "Marian fever", she performed in Russia and the major cities of Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/detail.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_MsColl200|title=Marian Anderson papers: Biography/History|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 24, 2014|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021040240/http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/detail.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_MsColl200|url-status=live}}</ref> She became a favorite of many conductors and composers of major European orchestras quickly.<ref name="Grove">Max de Schauensee/[[Alan Blyth]]: "Marian Anderson", ''[[Grove Music Online]]'', ed. L. Macy, accessed February 9, 2009 {{subscription required}}</ref> During a 1935 tour in [[Salzburg]], the conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] told her she had a voice "heard once in a hundred years."<ref name="upenn4" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/anderson/anderson_m3.html|title=Marian Anderson Papers, ca. 1900–1993 – Scope and Content Note|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]] Library Special Collections-MA Register 4|date=January 31, 2003|access-date=December 6, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607092647/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/anderson/anderson_m3.html|archive-date=June 7, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>