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LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK

8thMay 1829 --- 18thDecember 1869

Louis  Moreau Gottschalk  (born 1829,  New Orleans,  La,  U.S.A--died  1869,  Rio de Janeiro, Braz.),  the first American pianist to
achieve international recognition and the first American composer to utilize Latin-American and Creole folk themes and rhythms.
Son of an  English-German father  and an aristocratic Creole mother,  Gottschalk was a  child prodigy on several instruments.  In
Paris from age 13 he became a favourite of the aristocracy.

After playing in concerts throughout Europe, Gottschalk made his New York City debut in 1853. He toured the United States and
West Indies and spent several years as a vagabond in the Caribbean. In 1865 he began a South American tour that ended rather
abruptly in  his death  while conducting  at a festival  of  his works.  His compositions  include Gran Tarantella for  piano and  the
orchestra,  La Bamboula  and other piano  pieces, and vocal  works, many typical of early  19th-century sentimental salon music.

Although like Fredric Chopin,  he was in his time  a pianist and composer  in the Romantic tradition,  Gottschalk lacked  Chopin's
harmonic inventiveness and was more superficial. His music underwent a revival in the mid-20th century.  He was the author of
Notes of a Pianist printed after his death in 1881.

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New (3105)"Le Poete Mourant". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

New (3107)"Bluette". Sequenced by George C. Byrd.

New (3108)"Printemps D'Amour Mazurka". Sequenced by George C. Byrd.

New (3106)"Le Bananier, From the Creole song (En avan Grenadie)". Sequenced by Larry Roberts.

(1237)"Pasquinade Caprice". Sequenced by Larry Roberts.

Thanks to Gary Goldberg for the music below. Text for the piece below "Here"

(1266)"Grand Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra". Sequenced by Gary Goldberg.

(1238)"Danse Cubain Caprice Brillant, Opus 37,(1859)". Sequenced by John Cowles.

(1244)"Souvenir de Porto Rico". Sequenced by John Cowles.

(53a)"Louis Ganne". Sequenced by John Cowles.

(55a)"The Dying Swan, Opus.100". Sequenced by John Cowles.

(1240)"Sixieme Ballade". Sequenced by Clarita Verbeek.

(1241)"Bamboula, Dance de Negre, Opus.2". Sequenced by Philip DeWalt.

(484)"Souvenirs D'andalousie". Sequenced by Philip DeWalt.

(1245)"Union". Sequenced by Gerald Dorman.

(1246)"Manchega". Sequenced by Gerald Dorman.

(54a)"Banjo Grotesque Fantasie, Opus.15". Sequenced by Peter R Wolfe.

(466)"Caprice, Oh Ma charmante epargnez moi". Sequenced by Peter R. Wolfe.

(1242)"The dying poet". Sequenced by Gerald Dorman.

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