Great Galloping Gottschalk! "The Chopin of the Creoles" produced five operas and a number of massed orchestral works, for example, a symphony for 41 pianos in 10 parts with soloist. Such musical ginormities, however, have mostly disappeared or survived only in the form of sketchy, barely legible manuscripts rather roughly handled by past editors seeking to create "practical" performing editions of Gottschalk's stubbornly impractical creations. Naxos' Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Complete Works for Orchestra puts together, for ...
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Great Galloping Gottschalk! "The Chopin of the Creoles" produced five operas and a number of massed orchestral works, for example, a symphony for 41 pianos in 10 parts with soloist. Such musical ginormities, however, have mostly disappeared or survived only in the form of sketchy, barely legible manuscripts rather roughly handled by past editors seeking to create "practical" performing editions of Gottschalk's stubbornly impractical creations. Naxos' Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Complete Works for Orchestra puts together, for the first time, a comprehensive and textually accurate program of Gottschalk's surviving orchestral scores, including a couple of pieces discovered early in the twenty-first century and one that was never even performed in Gottschalk's own lifetime.The Hot Springs Music Festival is held every summer in Arkansas' Hot Springs National Park, and its music director, Richard Rosenberg, is the guiding force behind these reconstructions of Gottschalk's orchestral music. This endeavor began...
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