L.M. Gottschalk - Selected Works for Piano

00:00 Ballade No.8 (Klauss Kaufmann) 08:59 Grande Fantasie de concert sur La Favorite de Donizetti (unknown performer) 25:14 Solitude (Lambert Orkis) 29:26 Ballade No.6 (Richard Burnett) 35:46 Grande Fantasie sur l’hymne national brésilien (Alessandro Merino) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) was an American Composer. He was recognized as a prodigy by the New Orleans bourgeois establishment, making his informal public debut in 1840 at the new St. Charles Hotel. At the age of 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. The Paris Conservatoire, however, rejected his 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, b