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The Banjo, 1855 sheet music cover published by William Hall & Son.. The Banjo, Op. 15, is a composition for piano by the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.Composed in 1853, it is one of Gottschalk's best-known works.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) 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 .
Pages in category "Solo piano compositions by Louis Moreau Gottschalk" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
New Orleans composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk's jazz-like creations predated ragtime and New Orleans blues by half a century Out of Our Past: Concert pianist performed in Richmond before ...
At the time of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's birth in 1829, 'Caribbean' was perhaps the best word to describe the musical atmosphere of New Orleans. Although the inspiration for Gottschalk's compositions, such as "Bamboula" and "The Banjo", has often been attributed to childhood visits to Congo Square, no documentation exists for any such visits, and it is more likely that he learned the Creole ...
Louis Moreau Gottschalk quotes the melody in his virtuoso piano work "Grotesque Fantasie, the Banjo", op. 15, published in 1855. [17] [full citation needed] In 1909, composer Charles Ives incorporated the tune and other vernacular American melodies into his orchestral Symphony No. 2. [18] [19]
Louis Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo, Op. 15; Charles Gounod – Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach, later known as Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) Franz Liszt. Piano Sonata in B minor; Hungarian Rhapsodies 1–15; Ballade No. 2; Camille Saint-Saëns. Piano Quartet in E major; Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major; Robert Schumann ...
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - The Banjo (Gottschalk) Frédéric Chopin - Minute Waltz; Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Felix Mendelssohn - "The Spinning Song" (from Songs Without Words) (announced by Sparky, but the piano refuses to play it, so the music is not heard)