More Notes of a Pianist: A Gottschalk Collection Surveyed and a Scandal Revisited
1989; Music Library Association; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/941074
ISSN1534-150X
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoThis article surveys a collection of materials relating to Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) acquired by The New York Public Library's Music Division in 1984. One document in the collection contains Gottschalk's own account of the scandal of September 1865 that caused his clandestine flight from San Francisco and his self-imposed exile from the United States for the rest of his life. Gottschalk was the eldest of seven children. His sisters Clara and Blanche-both professional pianists for some years-strived to preserve his name and memory when, after his death, his music began to fall into unjust neglect. Clara, who lived on into the twentieth century, was especially active in this regard. With her husband Robert E. Peterson as translator, she edited and published in 1881 a version of Gottschalk's diary, which she called Notes of a Pianist,' a title Gottschalk had used earlier for published autobiographical writings. All of his brothers and sisters had considerable reason to revere Gott-
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