Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Composer of America, Not Just American

From Congo Square to the Caribbean, Gottschalk reminds us that America has always been connected.

We Americans aren’t known as the most worldly people, despite the globe-spanning reach of our culture. So much of that comes from our worldview, the sense that the United States sits at the center of everything. Even something as simple as how we divide the continents reveals this bias. From our perspective, North and South America are separate continen…