ISBN:
0691127166
,
9780691127163
Language:
English
Pages:
XLVIII, 433 S.
,
Ill.
,
23cm
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
786.2092
Keywords:
Gottschalk Louis Moreau
;
1829-1869
;
Pianists United States
;
Biography
;
Autobiografie
;
Quelle
;
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 1829-1869
Abstract:
Notes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). An important cultural and historical work, the book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life. Born to an English-Jewish father and a Haitian mother, Gottschalk is remembered as one of the great New Orleans musicians and composers, his music a combination of the classical tradition in which he was trained, and the New Orleans tradition into which he was born. His art form took him far outside the boundaries of Louisiana, however. While still a child, he studied piano in Paris and gave a concert at the Salle Pleyel, after which Frédéric Chopin is said to have remarked: "Give me your hand, my child; I predict that you will become the king of pianists." Gottschalk returned to the United States in 1853, and later lived in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, and South America, during which time he kept-sometimes sporadically, sometimes daily--the notebooks that formed the basis of Notes of a Pianist.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-420) and index. - Reissue of the reprint published: New York : Knopf, 1964. - Originally published: London : Lippincott, 1881
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