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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an influential 19th century American composer and pianist born in New Orleans to a Jewish father and Creole mother. He developed a musical style that blended classical, folk, and African influences and is considered a pioneer of ragtime and stride piano. Gottschalk's compositions were some of the first American works in the European classical repertoire and helped establish New Orleans as a musical center, influencing later composers like Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Debussy.

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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an influential 19th century American composer and pianist born in New Orleans to a Jewish father and Creole mother. He developed a musical style that blended classical, folk, and African influences and is considered a pioneer of ragtime and stride piano. Gottschalk's compositions were some of the first American works in the European classical repertoire and helped establish New Orleans as a musical center, influencing later composers like Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Debussy.

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    RHJB Meetup

    2/9/21
    Black History Month: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    “There Would Be No Jazz Without Louis Moreau Gottschalk”
    - C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
    ● Talented composer and pianist from New Orleans (1829 - 1869)
    ● Born free to an Ashkenazi Jewish father and a French Creole mother
    ● Educated at the Paris Conservatoire and a musical contemporary of Chopin
    ● Developed the musical style that would eventually become stride piano
    Paris and New Orleans
    ● The US did not have any composers for hundreds of
    years.
    ● Amateur and professional musicians relied mainly on
    publications from Europe.
    ● The romance between France and New Orleans goes
    far back. In the 1700s, French aristocrats would send
    attaches to the US, who would return with presents from
    the New World.
    ● In 1725, French settlers sent Chief Agapit Chicagou and
    five others to meet with King Louis XV.
    ● Jean Philippe Rameau, the court composer, was
    impressed by their dance, which inspired Les Sauvage,
    the first American theme in European music.
    Paris and New Orleans
    ● Cuba, Haiti, and New Orleans were global shipping partners with Europe
    ● New Orleans was unique because a slave could purchase their freedom
    ● This led to a culture of free African-Americans in NOLA, who made their own
    music. Some of this music returned to Europe.
    ○ Emil Johns owned and important music store in NOLA, and Chopin dedicated a piece to him.
    ○ Bizet wrote Carmen in response to Ernest Guiraud, who relocated from NOLA to Paris. It
    flopped in Paris, but Guiraud edited the opera for Viena where it was a hit. He went on to
    become a professor in Paris and mentor to Dukas and Debussy.
    ● By the 1800s, NOLA was the music capital of the US.
    ○ Large opera houses
    ○ Philharmonic society
    ○ Blacks were allowed to compose and perform
    ○ Creoles had salon parties
    Gottschaulk’s Influence
    ● Ultimately, this was popular music that was influenced by classical and folk
    ● Highly virtuosic at times
    ● Developed the style that we know as stride piano.
    ● His music is the first influenced by French Creole in the classical repertoire.
    ● He’s buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
    La Pasquinade
    La Pasquinade
    Le Banjo
    Le Union
    Influence on the classical world

    https://soundcloud.com/robertduncanmusic/le-petite-negrite-debussy

    https://soundcloud.com/robertduncanmusic/golliwogs-cakewalk-debussy
    Scott Joplin’s “Magnetic Rag”
    Jelly Roll Morton’s version of “Maple Leaf Rag”
    Jelly Roll Morton’s “King Porter Stomp”
    Further reading
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Indes_galantes
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Moreau_Gottschalk
    https://nmaam.org/2016/04/25/about-gottschalk-the-birth-of-the-new-world-sound/
    http://www.louismoreaugottschalk.com/Biography/biography.html
    https://www.allaboutjazz.com/there-would-be-no-jazz-without-louis-moreau-gottsch
    alk-by-c-michael-bailey.php

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