Le bananier louis moreau gottschalk biography
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Le Bananier (Gottschalk)
Le Bananier (The Banana Tree) in C minor, Op. 5, is a composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Dedicated to the famous pianist Alexandre Goria,[1] it was written in France around as one of the four "Louisiana Creole pieces" that Gottschalk composed between and Based on the Creole folk melodyEn avan' Grenadie (contraction of Grenadiers),[2] it was alternatively published with the subtitle Chanson nègre,[3] and was widely popular in Paris at the time of its release.
Musical analysis
[edit]The composition is an irregular sentence of bars in two strain lines. The first of the two, which make up the piece, has a musette accompaniment, being the melody in the second strain supported by two other contrapuntal voices. Harmonically, this bass evokes the "musette" attached to many an eighteenth-century gavotte.
Market impact
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
American composer and pianist (–)
Not to be confused with Louis F. Gottschalk.
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| Born | Louis Moreau Gottschalk ()May 8, New Orleans, Louisiana, US |
| Died | December 18, () (aged&#;40) Rio dem Janeiro, Brazil |
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, – månad 18, ) was an American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works.[1] He spent most of his working career outside the United States.
Life and career
[edit]Gottschalk was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Edward Gottschalk and Aimée Marie Bruslé. He had six brothers and sisters, fem of whom were half-siblings by his father's biracial mistress.[2] His family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal and Esplanade in the Vieux Carré. Louis later moved in with relatives at Conti Street; his maternal grandmother Bruslé and his nurse framstöt were both S