New Orleans native Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829—1969) was the first important American composer and pianist. The son of a Jewish business man and a Creole mother, Gottschalk was urbane and ...
Jazz as an American artform would never have evolved without Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A phenomenon in his lifetime but relegated to the status of parlor pianist today, Gottschalk nevertheless was the ...
From the mid-1850s until his death in December 1869, the New Orleans-born pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk was also a prolific composer. During that brief decade and a half, he is believed to have ...
Born in New Orleans in 1829, Louis Moreau Gottschalk was one of the 19th century's most celebrated composer-pianists. He pioneered the use of American vernacular melodies and rhythms in concert music; ...
On Feb. 21, 1865, one of the most scandalous of 19th-century musicians came to East Central Indiana to give a concert. Richmond might be the cradle of recorded jazz, but New Orleans composer-pianist ...
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American original. He blended French elegance with New Orleanian sultriness with Afro-Caribbean rhythms. His so-called Creole compositions made him all the rage in Paris ...
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