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briandmyers  ·  4537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Best Classical composers -Who are yours? What's missing from the list?
I added a few MP3s of this guy's work to my library and I enjoy it a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Moreau_Gottschalk

A sample :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Nkj7kF-3U





thenewgreen  ·  4537 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks. Such a mustache! This piece has a very saloon-esque feel to it imo. Meaning that I could see it being played in a 19th century brothel. -This is not a bad thing, it's actually pretty cool that it evokes a nostalgia for something so passed, I have never known it.