Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829. Besides the Romantic era non-stop bukkake Avengers style grand finale-ism demonstrated above his music was some of the earliest, if not THE earliest ragtime, and other slower compositions were the darlings on silent movie piano players since they left no doubt the emotional strings he was trying to pull on.
For reference Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt were born in 1810 and 1811 respectively.
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