LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk, (born May 8, 1829, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died December 18, 1869, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the first American pianist to achieve international recognition and the first American composer to utilize Latin American and Creole folk themes and rhythms.
Gottschalk was the son of an English-German father and a mother of French ancestry. A child prodigy on several instruments, by the end of his teenage years he had been hailed as an authentic spokesman of the New World.
After playing in concerts throughout Europe, Gottschalk made his New York City debut in 1853. He toured the United States and West Indies and spent several years in Cuba and other areas of the Caribbean. In 1865 he began a South American tour that ended abruptly when he died while conducting at a festival of his works. His compositions include Grande Tarantelle for piano and orchestra, Bamboula, and other piano pieces that
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