RE: (western) classical music discussion
December 21, 2017 at 7:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 8:21 pm by Rev. Rye.)
That’s clearly the reason. He’s still too obscure to get the attention he deserves. I have to admit, I’m more a Richard Strauß person than a Johann Strauß person, which is why I brought that point up. Then again, Liszt might be the obvious progenitor; I reckon Gottschalk gets less lasting fame because A) he was an American (New Orleans-born, to be precise) half-Jewish (period-accurate terminology ahead) quadroon and B) we didn’t get a bunch of cartoons of Bugs Bunny et al. Creating animated magic with the Grand Tarantella in the 1930s and 1940s.
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