Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Vernon Loggins
296 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 080710373X
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Language: English
Publish: July 1, 1977
Louis Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American pianist and composer to win international fame. His creative use of the colorful and exotic musical idioms of his native New Orleans foreshadowed by some fifty years the appearance of these same influences in early jazz.