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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Person · male · United States · New Orleans · born 1829 · died 1869 · recording since 1975
American musician and composer (1829-1869)
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Also known as Gottchalk · Gottschalk, Louis Moreau · L. Gottschalk (1829-1869) · Louis Gottschalk · 路易斯·莫罗·戈特沙尔克
Timeline
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Debut release: Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Biography
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Biography
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was a Louisiana Creole and Jewish-American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside the United States.
Life and career
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born on May 8, 1829, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Edward Gottschalk and Aimée Marie Bruslé. He had six brothers and sisters, five of whom were half-siblings by his father's biracial mistress. Gottschalk's family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal and Esplanade in the Vieux Carré. He later moved in with relatives at 518 Conti Street; his maternal grandmother Bruslé and his nurse Sally were both Saint Dominican Creoles, the majority of which had migrated to Louisiana and assimilated to Louisiana Creole society. Gottschalk was therefore exposed to a variety of musical traditions and influences and played the piano from an early age. He was soon recognized as a prodigy by the New Orleans bourgeois establishment, making his informal public debut in 1840 at the new St. Charles Hotel.
Only two years later, at age 13, Gottschalk left the United States and sailed to Europe, as he and his father realized a classical training was required to fulfill his musical ambitions. However, the Paris Conservatoire rejected Gottschalk's application without hearing him on the grounds of his nationality; Pierre Zimmerman, head of the piano faculty, commented that "America is a country of steam engines". Gottschalk eventually gained access to the musical establishment through family friends, but important early compositions like Bamboula (Danse des Nègres) and La Savane established him as a genuinely American composer, and not a mere imitator of the European written tradition; they were a major artistic statement as they carried a legacy of music of enslaved African people in a romantic music context, and as such they were also precursors of jazz. They still stand as the first examples of Louisiana Creole music in classical music culture. After a concert at the Salle Pleyel, Frédéric Chopin remarked: "Give me your hand, my child; I predict that you will become the king of pianists." Franz Liszt and Charles-Valentin Alkan, too, recognized Gottschalk's extreme talent.
After Gottschalk returned to the United States in 1853, he traveled extensively; a sojourn in Cuba during 1854 was the beginning of a series of trips to Central and South America. Gottschalk also traveled to Puerto Rico after his Havana debut and at the start of his West Indian period. Gottschalk was quite taken with the music he heard on the island, so much so that he composed a work, probably in 1857, entitled Souvenir de Porto Rico; Marche des gibaros, Op. 31 (RO250). "Gibaros" refers to the jíbaros, or Puerto Rican peasantry. The theme of the composition is a march tune which may be based on a Puerto Rican folk song form.
At the end of the tour, Gottschalk rested in New Jersey before returning to New York City. There, he continued to rest and took on a very young Venezuelan student, Teresa Carreño. Gottschalk rarely took on students and was skeptical of prodigies, but Carreño was an exception, and he was determined that she would succeed. With his busy schedule, Gottschalk was only able to give her a handful of lessons, yet Carreño would remember him fondly and performed his music for the rest of her days. A year after meeting Gottschalk, she performed for Abraham Lincoln and would go on to become a renowned concert pianist earning the nickname "Valkyrie of the Piano". His other students included American composer and pianist Anna Ware Poole.
In late 1855 and early 1856, Gottschalk made connections with several notable figures of the New York art world, including the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, composer and musician George William Warren and Hudson River School landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church. Like Gottschalk, Church had traveled extensively in Latin America (primarily Ecuador and Colombia) and produced a series of large-scale canvases of South American subject. Gottschalk dedicated a Mazurka poétique to Church, who gave Gottschalk a small (now unidentified) landscape painting. Gottschalk also possibly collaborated with Warren on his 1863 The Andes, Marche di Bravoura, a solo piano piece inspired by Church's large-scale South American painting of 1859, The Heart of the Andes.
By the 1860s, Gottschalk had established himself as the best known pianist in the New World. Although born and raised in New Orleans, he was a supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War. Gottschalk returned to his native city only occasionally for concerts, but he always introduced himself as a New Orleans native. Gottschalk composed the tarantella, Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67, subtitled Célèbre Tarentelle, during 1858–64.
In May 1865, Gottschalk was mentioned in a San Francisco newspaper as having "travelled 95,000 miles by rail and given 1,000 concerts". However, he was forced to leave the United States later that year because of an alleged affair with a student at the Oakland Female Seminary in Oakland, California. Gottschalk denied any wrongdoing, saying that the subsequent publication of this incident was an attempt to undermine his reputation by a rival of the piano manufacturer Chickering & Sons, the same brand of piano that Gottschalk used on his tours. He never returned to the United States.
Death
Gottschalk chose to travel to South America, where he continued to give frequent concerts. During one of these concerts, at the Teatro Lyrico Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 24, 1869, Gottschalk collapsed from yellow fever. Just before collapsing, he had finished playing his romantic piece Morte! (translated from Portuguese as "Death"), although the actual collapse occurred just as Gottschalk started to play his celebrated piece Tremolo. Gottschalk never recovered from the collapse.
Less than a month later, on December 18, 1869, at age 40, Gottschalk died at his hotel in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, probably from an overdose of quinine. According to an essay by Jeremy Nicholas for the booklet accompanying the recording "Gottschalk Piano Music" performed by Philip Martin on the Hyperion label, "He died ... of empyema, the result of a ruptured abscess in the abdomen."
In 1870, Gottschalk's remains were returned to the United States and were interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. His burial spot was originally marked by a magnificent marble monument, topped by an "Angel of Music" statue, which was irreparably damaged by vandals in 1959. In October 2012, after nearly 15 years of fundraising by the Green-Wood Cemetery, a new "Angel of Music" statue, created by sculptors Giancarlo Biagi and Jill Burkee to replace the damaged one, was unveiled.
Recordings
Various pianists later recorded his piano music. The first important recordings of his orchestral music, including the symphony A Night in the Tropics, were made for Vanguard Records by Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Vox Records issued a multi-disc collection of his music, which was later reissued on CD. This included world premiere recordings of the original orchestrations of both symphonies and other works, which were conducted by Igor Buketoff and Samuel Adler.
In 1984, Nimbus Records issued The Lady Fainted, a selection of piano fantasies, caprices, meditations and paraphrases played by Alan Marks. Lambert Orkis recorded a selection of Gottschalk's music on an 1865 Chickering concert grand in 1988 as part of The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. The music of Gottschalk was used in the soundtrack for the Michel Deville film Aux Petits Bonheurs , which was played by Noël Lee on a Steinway piano and released by Erato Records in 1994. Beginning in the 1990s, Philip Martin recorded most of Gottschalk's extant piano music for Hyperion Records.
In popular culture
Author Howard Breslin wrote a historical novel about Gottschalk titled Concert Grand in 1963.
A version of Gottschalk's Bamboula, with added lyrics, was recorded in April 1934 by trumpet player Abel Beauregard's dance band, the Orchestre Créole Matou from the French Caribbean Guadeloupe island. This is the first recording of this composition, as the first 'classical piano' recordings of Gottschalk's works were not recorded until 1956, by American pianist Eugene List. Other recordings related to the specific bamboula rhythm heard by Gottschalk in New Orleans' Congo Square and used on his famous 1845 composition Bamboula can be found on a 1950 Haitian voodoo recording Baboule Dance (three drums). On the 1962 Cuban folk tune Rezos Congos (Bamboula, Conga Music). Comments by musicologist Bruno Blum are included in each of the above releases. New Orleans singer and pianist Dr. John's recording of Litanie des Saints from Goin' Back to New Orleans was inspired by Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico.
Listening
Art of the States: Louis Moreau Gottschalk (six works by the composer) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-10-22)
Creole Eyes (Dance Cubaine), Op. 37 on YouTube
Berceuse (Cradle Song), Op. 47 on YouTube, piano and clarinet– restful fan dance (note:pasties), Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2017
Kunst der Fuge: Louis Moreau Gottschalk – MIDI files (piano works)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Wikipedia language versions | 22 | 83.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 27 | 89.5th |
| Studio albums | 23 | 97.2th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 24 | 95.3th |
| Recording span (years) | -106 | 4.9th |
| Genres | 8 | 94.5th |
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Discography (27 release groups · 23 studio albums)
Albums · 23
Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
1975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 50:55
1Souvenirs d'Andalousie3:472Le Mancenillier6:493Manchega3:474Souvenir de Porto Rico5:485O My Charmer, Spare Me3:016Suis-moi!3:197Le Banjo3:538Pasquinade3:419Grand Scherzo3:5010Le Bananier3:0111The Dying Poet7:1512Tournament Galop2:44Piano Music: Le Bananier and Other Pieces
1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:12:35
1Le Bananier (chanson nègre)3:152La Savane (ballade créole)6:063Le Mancenillier (sérénade)5:394Souvenir de Porto Rico (marche des Gibaros)5:265Romance2:566Chanson du Gitano4:377Polka in B-flat1:578Polka in A-flat2:459Suis moi (caprice)3:0610Manchega (étude de concert)4:1211La Gallina (danse cubaine)3:0112Minuit à Séville (caprice)5:0813Souvenir d'Andalousie (caprice concert)4:1514Mazurk3:5015Berceuse4:0516Ballade no. 66:1917The Dying Poet (méditation)5:58Classics of the Americas, Volume 1: Cuba / Louisiana
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:08:13
1Suite de danses et portraits: Mensaje / Duchas frías2:342Suite de danses et portraits: Adiós a Cuba2:053Suite de danses et portraits: Almendares / Se fué y no vuelve más3:084Suite de danses et portraits: Decisión / "Pst" / La cortesana5:145Suite de danses et portraits: Tiene que ser / Ilusiones perdidas2:256Suite de danses et portraits: Homenaje3:507Suite de danses et portraits: Sérénade cubaine4:378Quatre contredanses: La Tedezco1:519Quatre contredanses: La niña bonita1:3710Quatre contredanses: Recuerdos tristes1:1711Quatre contredanses: La Matilde1:3712Le Bananier2:4413Les Yeux créoles2:2814Bamboula8:0015Pasquenade3:3816La Savane7:1117Souvenir de Porto-Rico5:4618Morte!8:111990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:00:21
1Le Banjo, grotesque fantasie, op. 153:492L'Union, paraphrase de concert, op. 488:193Ricordati, op. 263:224Pasquinade, caprice, op. 593:485La Savane, paraphrase de concert, op. 37:116Scherzo romantique, op. 734:027Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des gibaros, op. 316:368La gallina, danse cubaine, op. 532:599Ojos criollos, danse cubaine, op. 372:0810The Last Hope, religious meditation, op. 166:4411Le Bananier, chanson nègre, op. 53:2112Bamboula, danse des nègres, op. 28:021991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 59:12
1Souvenirs D'Andalousie4:172Le Banjo4:033Grand Scherzo4:564Pasquinade3:405Berceuse4:476Tournament Galop3:137Mazurk3:478'Union'8:419The Last Hope6:0110Scherzo Romantique3:5011Le Mancemillier5:2212The Dying Poet6:351991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:09:33
1Le Banjo (grotesque fantasie), RO 224:062Le Mancenillier (serenade), RO 142, op. 115:263Minuit à Seville (caprice), RO 170, op. 304:494Romanze2:575Chanson de Gitano, RO 354:246Mazurka4:117Souvenir de Porto Rico (Marche des Gibaros), RO 250, op. 316:448Souvenir de la Havane (grand caprice de concert), RO 246, op. 396:259Danza, RO 66, op. 335:4510Sixième Ballade, RO 14, op. 836:1711Columbia (caprice américain), RO 61, op. 345:4912Les Yeux créoles (danse cubaine), RO 185, op. 372:1713Le Bananier (chanson nègre), RO 21, op. 52:4414Union (paraphrase de concert), RO 269, op. 487:39The Banjo & Other Creole Ballads, Cuban Dances, Etc
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 56:26
1The Banjo4:002The Dying Poet5:553Souvenir de Porto Rico6:054Le Bananier2:545Ojos Criollos2:326Bamboula7:277The Maiden's Blush3:048The Last Hope6:039Suis Moi4:1410Pasquinade4:2811La Savane6:3812Tournament Galop3:061992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 2:00:41
Disc 11Grande Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra7:432Symphony No. 2 "A Montevideo"12:143"The Union" Concert Paraphrase on National Airs7:564Marche Solennelle9:445Five Pieces for Piano, four hands - Radieuse, Grande valse de concert5:186Five Pieces for Piano, four hands - Ses Yeux, Polka de concert6:517Five Pieces for Piano, four hands - La Gallina, Danse cubaine2:358Five Pieces for Piano, four hands - Ojos Criollos, Danse cubaine2:439Five Pieces for Piano, four hands - Pasqinade, Caprice3:43Disc 21Grande Fantaisie Triomphale sur L'Hymne National Bresilien9:362Marcha Triunfal y Final de Opera, for Orchestra & Band9:053Symphony No.1 "La Nuit des Tropiques" - Andante13:024Symphony No.1 "La Nuit des Tropiques" - Allegro moderato7:055Variations on the Portuguese National Hymn for Piano & Orchestra9:436Escenas Campestres (Cuban Country Scenes) Opera in onew Act13:231994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:13:48
1Suis moi! (caprice), RO253, op. 453:282Berceuse, RO27, op. 474:423La jota aragonesa (caprice espagnol), RO130, op. 142:534Manchega (étude de concert), RO143, op. 384:165Marche de nuit, RO151, op. 174:596La Savane (ballade créole), RO232, op. 36:497Miserere du Trovatore (paraphrase de concert), RO171, op. 528:568Souvenirs d’Andalousie (caprice de concert), RO242, op. 224:129Polka in A-flat, RO2753:0110Ballade, RO2714:4611Polka in B-flat, RO2732:0112Ynés, RO2772:1013Caprice-Polka, RO444:3614Scherzo Romantique, RO2333:4915Souvenir de Lima (mazurka), RO247, op. 744:2716Grand Scherzo, RO114, op. 575:0017Pasquinade (caprice), RO189, op. 593:43Gottschalk: 40 Works for Piano
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 39 tracks · 3:04:31
Disc 11Battle cry of Freedom: Grand caprice de concert, Op. 555:382Grand Scherzo, Op. 575:083Bamboula: Danse des nègre, Op. 27:044Pasquinade, Op. 593:515Le Bananier, chanson nègre, Op. 552:506Sovenirs d'Andalousie, Op. 224:127The Last Hope, Op. 166:038La Jota Aragonesa, Op. 144:079The Maiden's Blush, Op. 1063:1710La Galina, Op. 533:0411Impromptu, Op. 544:5812The Dying Poet, Op. 1105:3713L'Union, Op. 486:42Disc 21Jeunesse: Mazurka brillante, Op. 701:582Love and Chivalry: Caprice èlègante en forme de schottische, Op. 974:533Danza, Op. 336:064O! Ma Charmante, Espargnez Moi!2:135Sixth Ballade, Op. 857:186Suis-moi caprice, Op. 453:137Pensée poétique, Op. 623:358America, Op. 414:159Ricordati, Op. 263:5410Tournament Galop2:5511Berceuse, Op. 476:2412Radieuse, Op. 1165:5213Brazilian National Anthem, Op. 699:21Disc 31Souvenir de la Havane6:012Chant du soldat, Op. 238:173The Banjo, Op. 153:514La Scintilla, Op. 203:085Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des Gibaros, Op. 315:266Ojos Criollos, danse cubaine, caprice brillant, Op. 372:057Two Mazurkas: Colliers d'Or, Op. 63:048Marche de nuit, Op. 174:489Manchega, étude de concert, Op. 383:0410Ossian: Deux Ballades, Op. 45:1411Minuit à Seville, Op. 305:0812El Cocoyé, Op. 806:2513Forget Me Not, mazurka caprice3:321997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:12:09
1O ma charmante, épargnez-moi! (caprice), RO182, op. 443:092Grande fantaisie triomphale sur l’hymne national brésilien. RO108, op. 699:133Gottschalk’s Melody2:064Bamboula (danse des nègres), RO20, op. 28:095The Dying Poet (meditation), RO756:356Hercule (grande étude de concert), RO116, op. 885:207The Last Hope (religious meditation), RO133, op. 165:118Murmure éoliens, RO 176, op. 468:539Andante (Symphony no. 1 “La Nuit des tropiques”, first movement), RO512:5110La Chute des feuilles (nocturne), RO55, op. 427:3211Tournament Galop, RO2643:101999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:00:15
1Célèbre Tarantelle, op. 67 no. 57:262Souvenir de Porto Rico, Marche des Gibaros5:563The Dying Poet, Meditation5:334Tournament Galop3:205O! ma charmante3:576Le Bananier, Chanson nègre3:067Manchega, étude de concert4:218Célèbre Tarantelle, op. 67 no. 46:209Berceuse (Cradle Song)4:0410Symphonie romantique "A Night in the Tropics": I. Noche en los tropicos10:0811Symphonie romantique "A Night in the Tropics": II. Festa criolla6:042000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:11:45
1La Colombe (petite polka), RO 60, op. 494:082La Moissonneuse (mazurka caractéristique), RO 173, op. 82:463Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (caprice élégant), RO 240, op. 93:344Pensée poétique, RO 194, op. 623:495La Scintilla (L'Étincelle) (mazurka sentimentale), RO 80, op. 204:146Souvenir de Cuba (mazurka), RO 245, op. 753:197La Gitanella (caprice caractéristique), RO 103, op. 352:328Morte!! (lamentation), RO 174, op. 606:049Polonia (grand caprice de concert), RO 210, op. 357:1710Fantôme de bonheur (Illusions perdues) (caprice), RO 94, op. 365:5311Forest Glade Polka (polka brillante), RO 98, op. 253:0112Ossian, Deux Ballades, RO 187, op. 4: No. 12:4413Ossian, Deux Ballades, RO 187, op. 4: No. 22:2114Ricordati (nocturne, méditation, romance), RO 227, op. 263:1315Reflets du passé (rêverie), RO 223, op. 285:1416Apothéose (grand marche solennelle), RO 8, op. 2911:362001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:07:33
1Sospiro (valse poétique), RO 241, op. 242:582Marguerite (grande valse brillante), RO 158, op. 764:213Bataille (étude de concert), RO 25, op. 648:314Réponds-moi (Di que si) (danse cubaine, caprice brillant), RO 226, op. 503:225Solitude, RO 239, op. 654:3368ème Ballade, RO 16, op. 9010:397Tremolo (grande étude de concert), RO 265, op. 586:128Orfa (grande polka), RO 186, op. 713:019El cocoyé (grande caprice cubain di bravura), RO 57, op. 807:0610Polka de salon, RO 207, op. 13:3611Rayons d’azur (polka de salon), RO 220, op. 773:3912La chasse du jeune Henri (morceau de concert), RO 54, op. 109:352003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:16:54
1Le Carnaval de Venise (grand caprice et variations), RO 45, op. 8912:272Marche funèbre, RO 147, op. 645:083Vision (étude), RO 295, op. posth.3:394Printemps d’amour (mazurka, caprice de concert), RO 214, op. 405:005Caprice élégiaque, RO 38, op. 565:076Colliers d’or, op. 6: No. 1, RO 582:207Colliers d’or, op. 6: No. 2, RO 592:058Danse ossianique, RO 64, op. 123:469Jeunesse (mazurka brillante), RO 129, op. 702:2610Danse des sylphes (caprice de concert), RO 65, op. posth.9:0611Le Sourire d’une jeune fille (grand valse de concert), RO 1413:1612Impromptu, RO 122, op. 546:1413La Favorita (grande fantaisie triomphale), RO 95, op. 6816:202003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:15:07
1Le Banjo, Esquisse Américaine, Op. 153:112Bamboula, Danse Des Nègres, Op. 29:213Le Bananier, Chanson Nègre, Op. 52:454La Savane, Ballade Créole, Op. 37:025Tremolo, Grande Étude de Concert, Op 583:536La Jota Aragonesa, Caprice Espagñol, Op. 143:007Manchega, Étude de Concert, Op. 383:038Souvenirs D'Andalousie, Caprice de Concert, Op. 224:089Souvenir de Porto Rico, Marche Des Gibaros, Op. 316:5110L'Étincelle, Mazurka Sentimentale, "The Spark", Op. 203:2011La Gallina, Danse Cubaine, Op. 533:3012Suis-Moi!, Contradanza, Op. 454:0113Pasquinade, Caprice, Op. 593:1214Tournament Galop, D. 1532:4515The Dying Poet, Meditation, D. 457:3916L'Union, Paraphrase de Concert, Op. 487:262004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:13:57
1The Water Sprite (polka de salon), RO 296, op. 274:342Forget Me Not (mazurka caprice), RO 994:393Deuxième Banjo, RO 24, op. 825:224Ardennes Mazurka, RO 2434:295Le cri de délivrance (caprice héroïque), RO 62, op. 556:406Fairy Land (schottische de concert), RO 914:047Hurrah Galop (pas redoublé de concert), RO 1182:398Le Chant du soldat (grand caprice de concert), RO 51, op. 2310:249Amour chevaleresque (caprice élégant en forme de schottish), RO 1354:4110La brise (Valse de concert), RO 303:3411Madeleine (étude), RO 1404:40127ème Ballade, RO 15, op. 875:4513La Gallina (danse cubaine), RO 100, op. 532:5214The Dying Swan (romance poétique), RO 76, op. 1004:5715God Save the Queen (morceau de concert), RO 106, op. 414:372005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:18:04
1Home, Sweet Home, RO 117, op. 516:542Chant de guerre, RO 48, op. 785:113Pensive (polka-rédowa), RO 196, op. 684:204Le chant du martyr (grand caprice religieux), RO 497:465Ses yeux (polka de concert), RO 235, op. 666:236Pastorella e Cavalliere, RO 190, op. 327:497Radieuse (grande valse de concert), RO 218, op. 725:438Dernier amour (étude de concert), RO 73, op. 626:469Variations de concert sur l’hymne portugais, RO 290, op. 9111:4810La mélancolie (étude caractéristique d’après F. Godefroid), RO 1675:2711Jérusalem (grande fantaisie triomphale), RO 126, op. 139:57The Ornithological Combat of Kings / Night in the Tropics
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 42:26
1Ornithological Combat of Kings: The Conflict of The Condor in the Air (Allegro, ma moderato)7:112Ornithological Combat of Kings: The Repose of The Condor (Andante sostenuto, quasi adagio)5:443Ornithological Combat of Kings: The Combat of The Condor on Land (Allegro)6:154Ornithological Combat of Kings: Victory of The Condor (Finale: vivace brillante)6:325Night In The Tropics: Andante10:356Night In The Tropics: Allegro Moderato6:092007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:16:54
1Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo", RO257: I. Andante2:302Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo", RO257: II. Presto - Maestoso8:463Célèbre Tarentelle pour piano et orchestre, RO2596:094Esenas Campestres Cubanas - Opéra en 1 acte, RO77: I. Tempo de danza: Moderato2:275Esenas Campestres Cubanas - Opéra en 1 acte, RO77: II. Più Lento8:016Esenas Campestres Cubanas - Opéra en 1 acte, RO77: III. Danza1:377Esenas Campestres Cubanas - Opéra en 1 acte, RO77: IV. Tempo de Danza: Moderato1:218Variations de concert sur l'hymne portugais du Roi Louis I, RO28912:349Ave Maria, RO106:0010La Casa del Joven Enrique por Méhul - Gran overture, RO54b11:1511Symphonie romantique "A Night in the Tropics", RO255: I. Noche en los Tropicos10:0912Symphonie romantique "A Night in the Tropics", RO255: II. Festa Criolla6:05A Night in the Tropics: Solo Piano Music
2015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:04:55
1Le Banjo – Fantaisie grotesque, op. 153:582The Last Hope – Méditation religieuse, op. 168:143Pasquinade – Caprice, op. 594:204Berceuse, op. 475:335Grande Fantaisie triomphale sur l’hymne national brésilien, op. 6910:286Le Songe d’une nuit d’été (Caprice élégant sur l’opéra de A. Thomas), op. 94:057Fantôme de bonheur (Illusions perdues), op. 368:458Reflets du passé – Rêverie, op. 286:479La Nuit des tropiques – Symphonie romantique: Andante12:45Great American Piano I: Gottschalk
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:11:15
1The Union6:532Danza6:003Pasquinade3:274The Last Hope5:155Le Bananier2:556Bamboula6:547The Banjo3:318Souvenir of Puerto Rico6:149Creole Eyes2:1810Midnight in Seville4:5511Tournament Galop2:5812Polka in B-flat1:5713Grand Scherzo4:4214Mazurka in F-sharp minor3:3315Berceuse - Cradle Song4:1216Battle Cry of Freedom - Grand Caprice de Concert5:31— · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:00:13
1Souvenirs d'Andalousie, Caprice de Concert4:172Le Banjo4:053Grand Scherzo5:004Pasquinade3:445Berceuse4:526Tournament Galop3:177Mazurk3:548"Union", Paraphrase de Concert8:509The Last Hope, Religious Meditation6:0810Scherzo romantique3:5511Le Mancenillier5:2812The Dying Poet6:43
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Gottschalk Vol. 2Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 1:15:351One Piano, Four Hands - I. La Jota Aragonesa3:09 2One Piano, Four Hands - II. Souvenirs D'Andalousie4:04 3One Piano, Four Hands - III. La Gallina2:38 4One Piano, Four Hands - IV. Orfa3:02 5One Piano, Four Hands - V. Marche De Nuit4:49 6One Piano, Four Hands - VI. Printemps D'Amour4:00 7One Piano, Four Hands - VII. Radieuse5:13 8One Piano, Four Hands - VIII. Réponds-Moi2:38 9One Piano, Four Hands - IX. Tremolo3:24 10One Piano, Four Hands - X. L'Etincelle3:00 11One Piano, Four Hands - XI. Ses Yeux6:30 12Two Pianos - I. The Union6:50 13Two Pianos - II. Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra7:24 14A Night in the Tropics - I. Andante12:44 15A Night in the Tropics - II. Allegro Moderato6:10 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 1997 | Music & the Arts, Volume 2, Number 2Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 57:431Epitaph (In Memorian: Martin Luther King Jr.)7:38 2Piano Concerto: Moderato6:51 3Piano Concerto: Adagio10:08 4Piano Concerto: Lento—Vivace7:31 5Celebration!3:15 6Stars4:27 7Symphony no. 1 (A Night in the Tropics): Andante11:42 8Symphony no. 1 (A Night in the Tropics): Allegro moderato6:11 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 2011 | The Complete Solo Piano MusicSearch SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | October 2011 | |
| — | A Gottschalk Festival: Works for Piano Solo, Four Hands & With OrchestraSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 33 tracksDisc 1 1A Night in the Tropics: Andante 2A Night in the Tropics: Allegro moderato 3The Banjo (Fantaisie grotesque), op. 15 4The Dying Poet - A Meditation, op. 110 5Souvenir de Porto Rico - Marche des gibaros, op. 31 6Le Bananier - Chanson nègre, op. 5 7Ojos criollos (Danse cubaine), op. 37 8Bamboula - Danse des nègres, op. 2 9The Maiden's Blush, op. 106 10The Last Hope, op. 16 11Suis moi - Caprice, op. 45 12Pasquinade - Caprice, op. 59 13La Savane - Ballade créole, op. 3 14Tournament Galop Disc 21A Montevideo 2Grand Tarantelle, op. 67 3Marche solennelle, RO154 4Variations on the Portuguese National Hymn, op. 91 5Escenas campestres, RO77 6Marcha triunfal y final de ópera, RO157 Disc 31Grande Fantaisie sur l'hymne national brésilien, op. 69 2La jota aragonesa, op. 14 3Souvenirs d'Andalousie, op. 22 4La gallina, op. 53 5Orfa, op. 71 6Marche de nuit, op. 17 7Printemps d'amour, op. 40 8Radieuse, op. 72 9Réponds-moi, op. 50 10Tremolo, op. 58 11L'Étincelle, op. 21 12Ses yeux, op. 66 13The Union, op. 48 | Compilation | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Louis Moreau Gottschalk head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 22 | 83.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 27 | 89.5th |
| Studio albums | 23 | 97.2th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 24 | 95.3th |
| Recording span (years) | -106 | 4.9th |
| Genres | 8 | 94.5th |
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