Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 High School Full Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 South Zone Middle School Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 High School String Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 North Zone Middle School Orchestra
- Olga Samaroff, The Victor Orchestra, Walter B. Rogers, Frank la Forge
- Menachem Har-Zahav
- Kim Nayoen
- Antoinette Perry
- Frances Cole
Live Albums
- Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 High School Full Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 South Zone Middle School Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 High School String Orchestra, Texas Music Educators Association Region 8 North Zone Middle School Orchestra
- Natalie Hinderas
Singles & EPs
- David Renaud
- Various Artists
- Maurice Abravanel, János Ferencsik, Hubert Reichert, Westfalisches Symhonie Orchester, Utah Symphony, Nemzeti Filharmonikus Zenekar, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Vladimir Golschmann
- Various Artists
- Lt. Col. William F. Santelmann, United States Marine Band
- Various Artists
Biography
American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk was a virtuoso pianist and the first American composer to establish a reputation overseas. Born in New Orleans, Gottschalk studied in Paris and earned the praise of Chopin, garnering fame through such American-styled works as Bamboula (1845). In the United States, his pieces Le Banjo (1855) and The Dying Poet (1853) proved enormously popular. Gottschalk spent the period 1857-1861 in the West Indies, giving the first concerts of orchestral music there. He toured the United States for the Union cause from 1862 to 1865, but sailed to South America in 1865 and never returned, dying in Brazil.