Talk:Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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I realize there's no universally accepted definition of "creole," but I'm not sure there's any such thing as a "white Creole Haitian." --Michael K. Smith 19:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- White creole Haitian essentially means French in this case. Her family were French nobility out of France post the French Revolution, and out of Haiti after a slave revolt. They were upper class, in old-fashioned language. As were his father's family, which I have seen more accurately described as English, of a line of Spanish Jews (because that's basically what they were). To call them Jewish is a bit misleading. Siegfried Sassoon for example is considered English. The impression might be gathered from the article that there's a very contemporary ethnic vibe to this composer's background. This is understandable, but it is High School gloss. Actually his father was a slave-owner, for example Hakluyt bean 13:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] American / Latin American
I think the assessment of Gottschalk as a great American composer is perfectly fine, but musically he rather more addressed himself to Latin America and was considerably influential there, for example in Cuba. Part of the reason I imagine why he's a neglected figure in the English-speaking world. Hakluyt bean 13:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
