Louis Moreau Gottschalk (Music in American Life)
Edition: 1 Ill edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780252068768
Subjects: 20th century music; Biography: film, television & music; Music Of The 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - General; Historical - U.S.; Music / General; History & Criticism - General; 1829-1869; Biography; Composers; Gottschalk, Louis Moreau,; Pianists; United States
First sentence: IT was Sunday, December 19, 1869, in Rio de Janeiro, and the body of Louis Moreau Gottschalk lay in state in the unornamented rooms of the Philharmonic Society at 41 Rua da Constituicao.