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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Gottschalk was the eldest boy of the Jewish-English New Orleans property speculator and his French-descended bride-to-be. Gottschalk may possess noticed the drums at Place Congo in New Orleans, but his contact with Creole melody most likely arrived through his personal household; his mom had developed in Haiti and fled to …

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