Author: Mary Alice SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: Mary Alice SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: Mary Alice Ives SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: S. Frederick StarrPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068768
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
"Innovating American composer, virtuoso pianist, and swashbuckling Romantic hero, Louis Moreau Gottschalk produced immensely popular works combining the French, Hispanic, and African influences of his native New Orleans. Many of his syncopated compositions anticipated ragtime by half a century. S. Frederick Starr's biography, originally published as Bamboula!, is the most extensive chronicle available of Gottschalk's eventful life. Starr examines Gottshalk's music, his frenetic life on the road, his virtuosity as a performer, his effect on his audiences, and the scandals surrounding his romantic dalliances. He also reveals a generous and compassionate man who sponsored a host of young musicians and provided financial support for his many siblings."
Notes of a Pianist
Author: Louis Moreau GottschalkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
LIFE AND LETTERS OF LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
Author: OCTAVIA. HENSELPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033802397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bamboula!
Author: S. Frederick StarrPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
In Bamboula!, S. Frederick Starr presents an authoritatively researched, engagingly written biography of America's first authentic musical voice. Starr paints for us a striking portrait of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's childhood in 1830s New Orleans, a city madly devoted to music, where opera companies, music halls, fiddlers and banjo-pickers, church choirs, and Army bands all contributed to what Starr calls "the most stunning manifestation of Jacksonian democracy in the realm of culture to be found anywhere in America". We meet Gottschalk's French-speaking maternal grandmother and also his African-American nurse Sally, both of whom regaled him with the songs, legends, and lore of the Creole world, which would inform some of his finest music. We travel with Gottschalk to Paris, where he was a sensation, playing in fashionable salons for the likes of Lamartine, Gautier, and Dumas; and we join his flight from the Revolution of 1848 to a town north of Paris, where he composed his first great works - Bamboula, La Savane, Le Bananier, and Le Mancenillier - all published over the name "Gottschalk of Louisiana". Starr describes Gottschalk's successful return to New York City in the early 1850s, where he enjoyed a degree of popularity never before accorded to an American performer or composer, becoming our first homegrown concert idol. But Starr also examines the life-long struggle between the Catholic Gottschalk and earnest Protestant champions of "serious" music, a battle that pitted the austere values of northern Europe against the brighter sensibilities of Paris, Louisiana, and the West Indies.
Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: Mary Alice SeymourLife and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: Mary Alice SeymourLife and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Author: Octavia HenselLife and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (Classic Reprint)
Author: Octavia HenselPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331625707
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Excerpt from Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk You snow Yon't care for tuberoses and jasmines. I have enough of. The tropics in my nature; send me blue violets and heliotrope: they soothe me into better thoughts, and make me more worthy to be Your sincere friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.