Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Pasquinade.
Gottschalk (1829-1869), born in New Orleans, was a kind of New World Franz Liszt. In the 19th century he toured widely as a concert pianist, mainly in North and South America. Wherever he went, he listened. The chords, the rhythms, the moods he heard found their way into his own compositions, which in turn laid part of the foundation for what would later become jazz.
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