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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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(Le Banjo, Pasquinade, Pastorella, Scherzo Romantique, Tremolo,
Valse Poetique)
"In his autobiographical "Notes of a Pianist," nineteenth-century
New Orleans piano virtuoso and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk
shares with us his impressions as he travels through North and
South America. His concert schedule and the number of cities he
visits in a year during the age of locomotive and steamship would
be daunting to even the most travel-hardened jet-age road warrior.
Whether at a railroad siding worrying about the fate of his
precious Chickering concert grand pianos before the Civil War
battle of Gettysburg, fleeing San Francisco for South America
because of a concocted scandal, or tending the wounded during the
revolution in Lima, Peru, Gottschalk puts the reader in the middle
of the action. His writing style is like his music--bold, colorful,
romantic, virtuosic, and dramatic."--Lambert Orkis, Grammy
Award-winning pianist
"Having grown up in opera-mad New Orleans in a household in
which Creole tunes were probably common currency, Louis Moreau
Gottschalk, after finishing school in Paris, gave free rein to his
captivating and spontaneous fantasy and melodic charm. As Frederick
Starr convincingly shows, his music was brilliant and original. And
it leaves, when sympathetically presented, an indelible impression
of his genius."--Lawrence Gushee, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, author of "Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the
Creole Band"
"Over and above all [the] purely sensuous aspects of
[Gottschalk's] pianism . . . Was the presence of a genuinely
musical soul. This was what most commanded the admiration of his
friend and mentor Hector Berlioz: his musicianship, his taste, and
his fine sense of proportion."--From the editor's Prelude
Title: Notes of a Pianist ... during his professional tours in the
United States, Canada, the Antilles, and South America. Preceded by
a short biographical sketch, with contemporaneous criticisms.
Edited by ... Clara Gottschalk. Translated from the French by R. E.
Peterson.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF
COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the
European settlements in North America through independence, with
emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain.
Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early
colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual
framework of this collection highlights 16th century English,
Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data
was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Gottschalk, Louis Moreau; Gottschalk, Clara; 1881.
480 p.; 12 . 10408.ee.17.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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