Gottschalk: Nationalist Composer, Native Virtuoso
1969; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 56; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3392659
ISSN1945-0087
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
Resumo* Louis Moreau Gottschalk's return to the United States in 1853 was the most anticipated arrival of any native musician until Van Cliburn was paraded up Broadway more than a century later. The twenty-three-year-old pianist left Europe with a growing reputation as a composer. He had brought the novelty of American songs and rhythms to Parisian audiences. Spaniards had been delighted by his treatment of their native music. Queen Isabella II had decorated him, and as a final accolade, a famous toreador had presented him his sword. Where had this young virtuoso pianist come from? Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829, the son of Edward Gottschalk, a businessman, and a Creole mother, Aimee de Brusle. When they realized that their son was a musical prodigy, they sent him at the
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