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Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk (October 7, 1864 – July 15, 1934) was an American composer and conductor born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a Missouri governor, also named Louis, he studied music in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father, a judge, was American consul. Louis Moreau Gottschalk was his great-uncle.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside the United States .
Gottschalk (1864-1934) was an American composer and conductor born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a Missouri governor, also named Louis, he studied music...
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Website dedicated to the life and music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869); biography, books, CDs and more.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first American pianist to achieve international recognition and the first American composer to utilize Latin American and Creole folk themes and rhythms. Gottschalk was the son of an English-German father and a mother of French ancestry.
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Sep 16, 2016 · Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829, the first child of a large, well-to-do Jewish family. His family lived not far from Congo Square (now Louis Armstrong Park), where the music of African...
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Louisiana-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) was renown in his time as a virtuoso performer and one of the first American musicians to gain an international reputation. The syncopated rhythms of Haitian and Cuban contradanzas are present in many of his compositions.
