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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
12+ albums
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano pieces. Although he is regarded as an American composer and musician, he spent most of his working career outside of the United States. Gottschalk was born of a Jewish businessman from London and a white Creole Haitian in New Orleans, where he was exposed to a wide variety of musical traditions. His family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal & Esplanade in the Vieux Carré, and Louis subsequently moved in with relatives at 518 Conti Street. His Grandmother Buslé and his nurse Sally were both natives of Saint-Domingue. He played the piano from an early age and was soon recognized as a wunderkind by the New Orleans bourgeois establishment. In 1840, he gave his informal public debut at the new St. Charles Hotel. Only two years later, he left the United States and sailed to Europe, realizing that a classical training would be required to fulfill his musical ambitions. The Paris Conservatoire, however, initially rejected his application, and Gottschalk only gradually gained access to the musical establishment through friends. Upon his return to the United States in 1853, Gottschalk travelled extensively; a lengthy trip to Cuba in 1854 marking the beginning of a series of trips to Central and South America. By the 1860s, Gottschalk had established himself as the foremost pianist in the New World. Although born in New
top songs
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Ynes
9782Tournament Galop
7903Le banjo, Op. 15
5864O! ma charmante
5745Symphonie romantique, "La nuit des tropiques" (A Night in the Tropics): II. Festa Criolla
4976Souvenirs d'Andalousie
4937Souvenir de Porto Rico (Marcha De Los Jibaros), Op. 31, RO 250
4478The Dying Poet
3689Bamboula, Op. 2
32710Le bananier, Op. 5
311albums
GOTTSCHALK: Piano Music
GOTTSCHALK: A Night in the Tropics / Celebre Tarantelle / Berceuse
Gottschalk: Complete Orchestral Works
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Gottschalk: Music for Piano
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Brilliantissimo
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Gottschalk: Piano Works
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Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics – Solo Piano Music
Gottschalk: Night in the Tropics (A) / Celebre Tarantelle / Berceuse
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Gottschalk : Au petits bonheurs (Apex)
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A Gottschalk Festival: Works for Piano Solo, Four Hands, & with Orchestra
A Gottschalk Festival
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