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A piano prodigy, Louis Gottschalk’s early influences included Creole music, African rhythms of Congo Square and French operas, all fashionable in the New Orleans of his day (born 1829). Instantly popular after his 1840 debut, he studied in Paris at age 13 where Chopin numbered among his many admirers. Gottschalk made his formal début as a professional pianist in the Salle Pleyel on 17 April 1849, in a recital featuring a group of his ‘Creole’ compositions, then the rage of Paris. The critics were captivated by his virtuosity and compared his approach to Chopin; as a composer, he was hailed as the first eloquent and authentic musical spokesman of the New World. He toured widely throughout Europe and the Americas. Gottschalk spent the years between 1857 and 1862 in the Caribbean and South America barely performing until financial pressures drove him to embark on a U.S. tour in 1862. In four and a half months Gottschalk traveled 15,000 miles by rail and gave 85 recitals, a brutal pace which he maintained for more than three years. His orchestral and piano works include La Nuit des Tropiques, Montevideo, The Dying Poet, The Banjo, and The Last Hope. Gottschalk’s sensitivity to esoterica enabled him to forecast, with uncanny prescience, American musical developments which did not actually take place until the end of the 19th century… Much of Gottschalk’s music, both published and unpublished, is lost although manuscripts have been found since the 1930s. Probably no orchestration of this piece exists today and if so very rarely played. It is known for solo piano. The first internationally famous musician of the Americas, he is often described as a "superstar" by historians, especially in Europe and South America. Some of his music predicts Ragtime of the future.


Louis Moreau Gottschalk died Saturday, December 18, 1869, in Tijuca (Brazil), three weeks after collapsing during one his concerts, just when he had finished playing his sorrowful “Morte!!” and was about to begin moving on to the next piece.

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