Louis Moreau Gottschalk News

The Green-Wood Historic Fund announced Tuesday that five prominent Americans from the fields of art, academia, music and film have been named to a special selection committee that will choose a new "Angel of Music" sculpture to grace the gravesite of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Green-Wood Cemetery.

It's never easy being a star, but if you believe a superstar concert pianist from that time, it was especially difficult in Springfield in the 1860s.

Myra Weisgold is one of five sculptors chosen to participate in a competition to recreate the "Angel of Music," a sculpture which once graced the grave of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Myra Weisgold is one of five sculptors chosen to participate in a competition to recreate the "Angel of Music," a sculpture which once graced the grave of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

One of New Orleans' greatest musicians got a boost in New York this month, but he couldn't join in the celebratory announcement.

Cape Playhouse invites you to to partake in a Musical Cocktail Party with such guests as George Gershwin , Claude Debussy , the fiery Cuban Ernesto Lecuona , American adventurer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Johann Strauss , the "Waltz King" among others.

A missing angel is returning to a New York City cemetery. Five sculptors have been chosen to submit designs for a new "Angel of Music" at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

The Pasadena Pops Orchestra opened its last summer season at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge last weekend with a pair of concerts named after Louis Moreau Gottschalk's neglected symphony "A Night in the Tropics." They opened the evening with that symphony's almost-jazzy second movement, written half a century before jazz, and followed it, ...

Brooklyn's Historic Green-Wood Cemetery recently announced a new fundraising campaign to re-create "The Angel of Music" - a delicate and intricate sculpture that once marked the grave of legendary 19th century American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk .