of Argyle. Best known for her performances of the music of George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, she also performed sentimental American songs such as Henry Bishop's 1852 setting of John Howard Payne's "Home! Sweet Home!" and Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home". Returning to the United States, she toured and conducted a Philadelphia music studio. Among her voice pupils was Thomas Bowers, who became known as "The Colored Mario" and "The American Mario" for the similarity of his voice to Italian opera tenor Giovanni Mario. In the 1860s she created an opera troupe with Bowers which she directed. Greenfield died in Philadelphia of paralysis on March 31, 1876. She was a member of the Philadelphia Shiloh Baptist Church. References Further reading Blakemore, Erin. “Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, ‘The Black Swan.’” Daily JSTOR, JSTOR, 6 May 2019. Chybowski, Julia J. "Becoming the “Black Swan” in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Early Life and Debut Concert Tour." Journal of the American Musicological Society 67.1 (2014): 125–165. LaBrew, Arthur. The Black Swan: Elizabeth T. Greenfield, songstress: biographical study. Detroit, MI: [s.n.], 1969 Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. . Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. 3 Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in America: an historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1993. pp 499–501. External links The Black Swan at Home and Abroad; A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, The American Vocalist. @ Gutenberg.org 1824 births 1876 deaths 19th-century American slaves 19th-century African-American women singers 19th-century American women opera singers African-American women opera singers Musicians from Natchez, Mississippi Musicians from Philadelphia Singers from Mississippi Singers from Pennsylvania Classical musicians from Pennsylvania