Briefly discuss America’s virtuoso cult with particular emphasis on the musical life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
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He was the most gifted American musician of the mid-nineteenth century.born: New Orleanspianist; composer; virtuoso performerfirst established himself in Europe as a composerreturned to U.S. a successful composertwo trips to the West Indieskept a journal: published as Notes of a Pianistwalked a careful line between classical and popular musicremarkable appearance, stage presence, and charm Gottschalk’s compositions can be divided into three categories:pieces based on vernacular American music“The Banjo”virtuoso concert pieces or “paraphrases”medleys of operatic airspopular tunes that were often patrioticthe so-called salon piecesHe often ended his concerts with these sentimental works.least favorite of his
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