Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Book Details
Author(s)
Vernon Loggins
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
ISBN / ASIN
080710373X
ISBN-13
9780807103739
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Sales Rank
#3,998,898
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
