Louis Moreau Gottschalk - note on files



This research bibliography deals with Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

and Caribbean influences.  The most significant and extensive bio-

bibliography currently available on Gottschalk is by John Godfrey Doyle:

Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1928-1869: A Bibliographical Study and Catalog of

Works (Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1983).



The purpose of this research bibliography is threefold: compilation of a

selected bibliography that contains a concentration of writings on

Gottschalk's Caribbean influences; a new (hopefully, more accurate)

compilation of Gottschalk's works composed while he was living in the West

Indies; compilation of research files that reflect all new Gottschalk

materials since the publication of Doyle's bio-bibliography to 1993.



The following information provides a brief description for some of the GOT

files contained in the AMR database:



GOTDIS: complete listing of all dissertations, theses, and unpublished

papers on Gottschalk; new materials appearing since Doyle's bio-

bibliography.

GOTUPB: unpublished studies.

GOTCMP: a new compilation of all of Gottschalk's compositions composed

while he was in the West Indies (1857-1861) with performing media, date and

publisher of first edition.  Doyle's bio-bibliography and Robert

Offergeld's Centennial Catalogue of the Published and Unpublished

Compositions of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (New York: Ziff-Davis, 1970) are

primary sources for this new compilation.

GOTWRI: Gottschalk's writings; includes new materials available since

Doyle's bio-bibliography.

GOTDSC: Doyle's bio-bibliography provides a complete discography to 1983. It

also includes a complete Gottschalk discography since 1983.



OCLC was particularly useful in compiling the GOTBIB, GOTARL,

GOTCMP, GOTWRI, and GOTDSC files.



Major archival holdings for Gottschalk include: the Library and Museum of

the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center (largest

Gottschalk collection); The Library of Congress Music Division.  Manuscript

fragments are housed in the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Kemper and

Leila Williams Foundation, New Orleans, LA; Bibliothäque Nationale, Paris.





These files are supplementary to the subject links:

GOTGEN: general bibliographic sources for Gottschalk.  Doyle provides a

complete general bibliography in his Gottschalk bio-bibliography.

GOTHST: materials dealing with polyethnic (primarily Pan-American) music

and Gottschalk.

GOTBIB: books, articles, music, and discography specifically addressing

Gottschalk's Caribbean influences and polyethnic musical contributions;

includes pertinent materials appearing since Doyle's bio-bibliography. (in

\FAMR\RES; books on Gottschalk, Caribbean influences; includes all books

written on Gottschalk since Doyle's bio-bibliography.

GOTPER: periodical articles on Gottschalk and Caribbean influences; all new

periodical articles written since Doyle's bio-bibliography.



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