Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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Louis Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American pianist and composer to win international fame. His creative use of the colourful and exotic musical idioms of his native New Orleans foreshadowed by some fifty years the appearance of these same influences in early jazz.