Where the Word Ends: The Life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

by Vernon Loggins

Louis Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American pianist and composer to win international fame. His creative use of the colorful and exotic musical idioms of his native New Orleans foreshadowed by some fifty years the appearance of these same influences in early jazz.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807106070
• ISBN13: 9780807106075
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.