Notes of a PianistNotes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth century New Orleans born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 1869). An important cultural and historical work, the book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life. Born to an English Jewish father and a Haitian mother, Gottschalk is remembered as