Grande Tarantelle - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2011
- In 1859 Gottschalk performed an improvised tarantella with pianist Nicolás Ruiz Espadero and violinist José White at the Liceo Artístico y Literario in Havana. That extemporization would evolve over the years until it reached it's final form for piano and orchestra as the Grande Tarantelle, (Op 67) and during the last year of his life, it became Gottschalk's workhorse. When the composer died without leaving a score for this piece, more than twenty different versions have surfaced, most of which are apocryphal. Recently though, Gottschalk's manuscript has been discovered and can be heard in a recording by Richard Rosenberg on the Naxos label.
To learn more about Gottschalk visit -
www.gottschalk-pianist.com/
Performance and content copyright © 2011 W.A. DeWitt
First found out about Gottschalk in my American music class at the University of Minnesota back in 1970. Haven't followed him much until now. Awesome musician indeed. Too bad he isn't recognized as much as he should be! Love the diversity of musical styles this man employed!
I have listened to this recording over and over again and I NEVER get tired of it. It is a sheer joy to hear such virtuosity. How I would love to be able to play like this, especially a piece so full of vitallity. I enjoy the Nadia Weintraub version with orchestra too which you can actually watch. How only ten fingers can sound like twenty constantly blows my mind.
This was fantastic! I was thinking about him recently, he's buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, my hometown. It's a shame he died so young. I'd read he put the 'play' in 'playboy' during his time and was a true Matinee idol. He angered so many husbands they chased him out of San Francisco. They threatened him for "ruining the ‘morality of their wives with his good-looks and matinee-idol status."
Wow, not an easy piece to play! This work by Gottschalk is a real gut check
This piece is full of vitality, like the Tournament galop! Sad that Gottschalk was only 40 when he died! Also, sad that he wasn't better known - his music is brilliant!
I wanna know what his mum looked like !!
@@trishbirchard1270 she was Haitian and beautiful.
ESPLENDIDO COMPOSITOR
Monsieur Gottschalk, vous étiez formidable.
@@setricesimus Et moi.
This is amazing! You can clearly hear the influence of caribean and afro music adapted to a more classical format and style. This kind of music and rythms gave way to Ragtime and later to Jazz, so it's hard to measure the influence it had over today's popular music, even when this author isn't THAT well known and his pieces mostly not written.
Always great to hear Gottschalk being played. HIs music is not played as an encore very much these days. A great shame
Influence of Caribbean and Afro music???? Not at all , sorry. There is a slight influence of Italian, Neapolitan rithm.
I prefer to say: "Great idea of yours!" Gottschalk pieces as encores? Yes-especially here in his-and our-homeland!
well , AYE play 'em !!!
one of the funnest things ever to listen to !!
Your work is absolutely, stunningly fabulous. I hope you will continue to post the works of L.M. Gottschalk. Your technique makes me question the sentiment, expressed by Gottschalk himself, that he was the only one who could play his music as he intended. I hope you will consider putting "The Fall of Leaves", "The Eighth Ballade", and "Aeolian Murmures" on UA-cam. They are my favorites and only Philip Martin has recorded them....as far as I know.
I always repeat the same words in cases like this, why the hell these great musicians are not played any longer ??????? I am quite fed up with the same piano concertos played repeatedly and all the time by great pianists, why cannot they try other works by so many musicians like this?????? Medtner, Gottschalk, Anton Rubinstein, etc etc etc
Are you the same German Cardoso from the Frederic Chopin group on Facebook by any chance?
I so agree with you. Sick of same old. Doesnt help us grow as listeners
The Orchestras don't want to take the risk for things like these or Totentanz, Malediction etc because the same old bores who go to concerts will obmect. (Philistines)
This is absolutely outstanding!
Amazing! Intensity meets joy!
I love this piece!
agree with you gottschalk is amazing his style is so unusual for that period one of the pioneers of modern music
Maravilha de peça!!!! Gottschalk era, realmente, um gênio absoluto! Pena que tenha vivido tão pouco...!
Fabuleux!
A muito tempo, tive um "LP" que havia sido censurado pela ditadura. Agora, pelo UA-cam consigo re-encontrar as músicas de Gottschalk. Sensacional.
Just bliss .... First time I listen to Gottschalk , I got here because of Rösti .... Talk about connections
De toute beauté !
j'ai découvert Gottschalk grâce au film de Michel Deville "Aux petits bonheurs" et depuis il m'accompagne régulièrement...
Fantastique!!! J'aime le musique d'Gottschalk!!! His music is so lively!! Quisiera yo escuchar que nuestra orquestra tocara esta musica!!
Amazing!
Extremely difficult. I gave up, and went back to a Joplin rag. Splendid playing.
Awesome!
I hear ragtime. Love it!
This was a classical adaptation that became one of the precursors to ragtime along with African American spirituals around the late 1800s. Ragtime is generally known for its syncopated rhythm, I.e. broken and unsynchronized bass and treble rhythm which you can clearly see evidence of which Gottschalk used from his African American sources.
Спасибо. фантастически красиво
Formidabile.
Originalissimo e raffinato.
An absolutely masterful performance of this brutally difficult piece.
It's a MIDI sequence, not a performance by a human.
Brilliant!
How happy one must be playing this piece
0:51 always gets me
Thanks.
The sheet music cover that begins this video is for the four-hands version of this piece (the solo version has a completely different cover design). Large portions of it have been omitted and the dazzling downward arpeggio has been embellished to twice it's normal speed. I too suspect a player piano.
This is great.
I wanted to learn this myself and realized this recording is actually a simplified version of the piece after studying the sheet. The original solo piano sheet is much longer and more complicated.
More complicated than this!? Holy Mother of God! Good luck brother.
Actually, no. The one that you are probably thinking of is either Espadero's transcription or Hershy Kay's orchestration, neither of which is 'the original'. We don't have the original, because it was improvised. The only version that was actually written by Gottschalk is for piano and orchestra and is not much more complex than this. Luckily, I found it on youtube, so you don't have to buy the album on Naxos to take a listen. ua-cam.com/video/46zXruaPaD0/v-deo.html
ComposaBoi Ackchyually ...
As far as I know there is one solo piano score available for this piece and it’s from Espadero. And if you take the description of this video as accurate Espadero was a friend of Gottschalk and co-wrote the piece.
@@adamvictor9124 I know. But there are other versions for solo piano, like the video we're commenting on. I was just correcting the 'original' part of the first comment. Also I just realised that the "actually, no" part of my reply may have sounded harsh, sorry.
There is a CD of Gottschalk's piano music for two and four hands by Alan Marks and Nerine Barrett. It includes this Tarantelle but I've not heard the whole performance, just a few seconds of it and I'm not sure whether it is the solo or duet version. However, the timing, 5:00, is the same as this performance. Coincidence ?
¡Excelente pieza!. ¿Hay alguna liga en Internet donde pueda bajar esta música?
Gottschalk amazing... Something between the Grande Galop or the "Contrabandista" of liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan Virtuosity. amazing Another "Strange Bird" and way ahead for its time at least 30-40 years before scott joplin!
Oh this is fun!😃
i have been working on this piece for a while and it is very difficult. I would like to know if this is a recording on a player piano. Playing the piece at this speed is an incredible feat.
I think it may be played on what’s called a Chickering Piano, but I could be wrong.
Rumor has it LMG was killed . He produced , wrote, directed and performed all his music for the many concerts he gave all over the states , the Caribbean islands and South and Central America at times giving monster concerts with multiple pianists on stage and had big audiences wherever he went . A very busy man selling his music to many people. P.T. Barnum wanted Gottschalk to work for him but he turned him down flat to Barnum's dismay His years 1829 to 1869 also parallel with Chopin and Liszt who he met when he studied in Europe . Much of Gottschalk's music is played today and is a very popular American composer of original mainly piano music
Tis version played by Ivan Davis is once again a masterpiece.
Why doesn't anyone else comment on this great music and this great performance?
I have sir.
Eugene List American pianist recorded on several discs in a box set on vinyl LMG complete works for piano
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious！
めっちゃ好きな曲なのに知ってる人少なくて悲しいー
Not only is this piece fantastic, so is the playing AND the piano itself. Would love to know the maker.
Fantastic! Full of life and energy. Would need a fair bit of practise, to say the least!
Anyone know just which version this is? I've found on several sites the sheet music for "solo piano" version of this but the music is different and far more complex than what is played here. We have "solo piano", "piano - 4 hands", "piano and orchestra" and now it looks like we have yet another solo piano version here. Anyone know where to find music for THIS version?
try this site: free-scores.com. HTH.
Download the Piano Solo version here imslp.org/wiki/Grande_tarantelle%2C_Op.67_(Gottschalk%2C_Louis_Moreau)
I have the sheet music to this version if anyone needs it.
Is it for solo performance? If so, I would love it. If 4 hands, I don't have them. =)
Hello there, I've been struggling to find it. If you have the "one piano" version would you mind me borrowing it ?
Thx a million !
yes i want it if you can send it to me, thank you so much.
Please send over the solo version to me as well!
@@Rami-kx4ln IMSLP.org under LM Gottschalk. It is longer and different (much harder) than this version, but is considered the more "official" version. For the music, some UA-cam channels have uploaded the longer version for solo piano.
This is a midi-rendered performance though.... not a live player playing.
Are you sure?
pianistinblues Absolutely - all the videos of Gottschalk uploaded on this YT channel seem to be. I have quite a bit of experience of making my own midi renditions. The "touch" on the notes is far too regular, there is no inner voicings of chords/cantabile, or variety of tone within the textures, the rhythms too fixed, especially the free-er ones, the way that when the pedal is put down there is no sympathetic vibration of other notes (just sustaining the pitch). A few wrong accidentals in some of the videos are the kind of things a pianist would never do (they are harder to play with these wrong notes and very unnatural in feel) and result from inputting the score incorrectly and forgetting an accidental. No complaint really, as it's nice to hear all the music. But live performances these are not.
its a really good midi file.
You're right is difficutl play this with out error.
I have listened something play with computer in a CSC in Padova, Center of Computational Sonology, and today the technology can play very well , but not well like a pianist. =)
I can't comment in detail the way you others have, I'll just say this sounds too perfect a performance to have been done live. I could believe a player piano with a sustain pedal action maybe.
d60944 The chromatic glissandos sound like MIDI. Look at the score and try to conceive human hands playing that.
Are you Danny Driver?
Who is the pianist on this recording of Tarantelle?
But seriously, can Punch brothers cover this - STAT!
Who is playing this? Is this midi?
Capital Radio brought me here, anyone else?
My Honda brought me here. :)
Gwendolyn Brooks led me here.
Please write a left side.
This is the foundation of ragtime, The bass is constant and measured, the treble is "ragged" and inventive. This is beyond belief. Had I been present when it was first played I would have fainted. Pure joy.
Why He has a German lastname?
His father was a non-practicing Jew from England; mother a Catholic, as was he.
How come all of these great men died before the age of forty? Answer me that one. Well, Camille Saint Saens was an exception, but you get my drift.
I ask this all the time. If only they survived an extra 10 years to give us more their brilliance. George gershwin is another one who died young
I wonder what this piece would sound like if Horowitz had played it...
Depends on how many notes he dropped. Sometimes he missed enough to make up a whole other recital.
Hard to imagine young folks wasting their lives listening to rap garbage and never knowing the joy of these pieces.
This was not the work of a solo pianist there had to be 2 pianists .The Grand Tarantella is usually played with orchestra A thrilling piece . I have never heard this recording but the performers zipped through it in record speed
Syncopated music generally has non synchronized left and right hand melodies though.
IMSLP
A nightmare for even professional pianists.
Lovely anyways
Loco Fou not more than Lizt
Fake midi
No it is not.
Too many notes.
Your work is absolutely, stunningly fabulous. I hope you will continue to post the works of L.M. Gottschalk. Your technique makes me question the sentiment, expressed by Gottschalk himself, that he was the only one who could play his music as he intended. I hope you will consider putting "The Fall of Leaves", "The Eighth Ballade", and "Aeolian Murmures" on UA-cam. They are my favorites and on Philip Martin has recorded them....as far as I know.
Good idea