Notes of a Pianist

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By Louis Moreau
Gottschalk

Translated by Robert
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Published 1881
Lippincott

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Arica - Page 439
I will continue my voyage to the south as far as Arica, another little port fifty leagues to the south of Islay, and I return to the boat which has ...
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Copiapo - Page 458
and took the road for Copiapo, where, according to law, they should immediately present the argentiferous stones, and claim the privilege of discovery ...
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Arequipa - Page 472
have overturned and conquered in a battle before Arequipa, in which he showed himself as cowardly as he had shown himself up to this time insolent and ...
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Lima - Page 434
It was in fact doubtful if the society of Lima would not be frightened at the idea of entering into the hall and gardens of Otaiza, the Peruvian ...
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Chiriqui - Page 404
To give you an idea of the richness of the excavations, the weight of the rough gold in the objects found at Chiriqui has been valued at seventy ...

Harrisburg - Page 207
They beat the 'to arms' in the streets. I leave at daylight for Harrisburg, for, notwithstanding my remarks, Strakosch turns a deaf ear to me.

Madrid - Page 54
After several months passed together Gottschalk set out for Madrid in company with his father, who traveled with him as far as Bordeaux, ...

New Orleans - Page 54
At this period his father arrived from New Orleans on a visit to his family. It was very touching to see the pride and happiness of the father at ...

Yverdon - Page 50
At Yverdon, the proceeds of his concert, which were considerable, have served for the foundation of an asylum for the aged; one wing of this asylum ...

San Francisco - Page 372
The scarcity of trees in and around San Francisco might be easily explained by the action of this wind, which cuts down vegetation and scarcely ...

Joliet - Page 328
and the number of his feminine conquests was so great that half the population of Joliet would have had the right to give him a good thrashing. ...

Fishkill - Page 175
They stopped at Fishkill. On seeing them get up I did as much under the influence which two pretty eyes always exercise, and rushed out, ...

La Paz - Page 449
The perspective on this side has nothing attractive in it, but on the other it presents a magnificent occasion to go to La Paz. ...

Paris - Page 463
Riobo, has passed many years in Paris. He is a perfectly polished gentleman, who performs the honours of his little kingdom like a man accustomed to ...

St. Louis - Page 352
This does not badly resemble the hotel at St. Louis, which has magnificent corridors, but nothing to heat them with in winter, when the thermometer ...

Lausanne - Page 50
At Lausanne, they decreed to him in public session the medal of honorary corresponding member. I should never finish if I were to enumerate all the ...

Scranton - Page 265
The operator announces to me that Strakosch is at the telegraph at Scranton and wishes to speak to me. " Dress for the concert. ...

Valladolid - Page 62
The students of Valladolid, the Montpellier of Spain, sent to him a deputation of six of their comrades to felicitate and offer their services to him. ...

Philadelphia - Page 147
The Opera House (Academy of Music) at Philadelphia is certainly one of the most beautiful in the world. It.

Cleveland - Page 320
The bill of fare is less ambitious than that of Cleveland, but more real, and we dine very.

Toronto - Page 301
I have visited the barracks of the six batteries of artillery placed in garrison at Toronto. Those who are not with English soldiers will with ...

New York - Page 414
I will take upon myself respectfully to suggest to the municipal authorities of New York the importation of some thousands of these winged scavengers, ...

Boston - Page 234
Hardly fifteen years ago these three things would have appeared like monstrosities to the puritanic inhabitants of Boston. ...

Chicago - Page 330
who for some time have frequented the most fashionable streets of Chicago from ten o'clock in the morning till four in the afternoon. ...

Montreal - Page 300
I will mention an improvement over our concerts at Montreal, which is that conversation, if there was any, took place in an undertone that permitted ...

Baltimore - Page 245
I love Baltimore. I love its people. I am assured that they are Secessionists, but I do not wish to know anything about it, and have no right to speak ...

Detroit - Page 318
Arrived at Chicago from Detroit after nineteen hours of railroad. The snow is so thick that in many places it is drifted to a height of three or four ...

Ayacucho - Page 441
In the department of Ayacucho there are villages and entire districts whose inhabitants, for the most part Indians, are so ferocious and independent ...

Buffalo - Page 274
Thanks to the noise which the rash enterprise at Buffalo has made (I wished to speak concerning the attack of which he has been the subject in a paper ...

Indianapolis - Page 184
I was alone in my room when a moment ago a friend brought me a journal of last month containing a letter from a lady in Indianapolis on my concert in ...

Quebec - Page 305
The Oblate Fathers, who promenade Quebec in their filthy cassocks, are only hypocritical forms outrageously rubicund and oily, or ignobly emaciated ...

ELMIRA, New York - Page 196
ELMIRA, New York, Sunday, June, 1863. I am convinced that some savant will one day discover that time is a fluid which expands and contracts according ...

Brooklyn - Page 142
One night, in returning from Brooklyn, where I had been to give a concert, our steamer was blocked by the ice at the falling of the tide, ...

Erie - Page 340
On the road from Erie to Lockport, thirteen hours on the road, the train got off the rails. " It is the first time that it has happened for six months ...

Syracuse - Page 344
This is what happened at Syracuse, only the audience, whose mind was not very enlightened on all these points, and had only instinct to guide it, ...

York - Page 330
Lately an omnibus horse fell down in Broadway, E'ew York. He died in a few moments. It was near the City Hall, where the great artery contracts, ...

Charleston - Page 130
A great French newspaper made an army march in a few hours from Richmond to Charleston. I know that all this is so absurd that it appears almost ...

Albany - Page 175
had there complete success; at one and a half o'clock I took the train for Albany where a second concert was to take place at half past four o'clock; ...

Rome - Page 472
justice, and equality in order to wallow in those turpitudes which recall the decadence of Rome and the saturnalia of the lower empire! ...

Burgos - Page 63
A short time after, while preparing to visit Burgos, he met with an adventure which obliged him to postpone his voyage. ...

London - Page 443
who are rich, who Wealth being almost the only aristocracy recognized among parvenus and republicans, it cannot be gainsaid have a brother in London, ...

Dom Pedro - Page 71
On his arrival, be was invited to the palace, and received from the Emperor of Brazil, the learned and accomplished Dom Pedro, and his queen and ...

Dayton - Page 384
I leave for Dayton in the stage. The heat is excessive, fortunately the distance is only six miles. We have four strong horses, in one hour we shall ...

Naples - Page 362
of the sun on the patches of verdure are mirrored and coloured with the reflex of opals and rubies, and the immense azure vault of a sky like Naples. ...

Aix - Page 58
At Aix the Grand Duchess of Weimar and the Queen of Sardinia loaded him with marks of esteem. At Lausanne they overwhelmed him with flowers and ...

Carson City - Page 392
Let it suffice to state that I remained twenty hours in the stage from Placerville to Carson City. Also that I was sick for three days afterwards. ...

Peoria - Page 321
En route for Peoria from Chicago. In the second class car where I have gone to smoke, I have conversed with a Frenchman who, with his monkey, ...

Rockford - Page 222
my name being sufficiently powerful at Rockford to enable me to get an audience without the aid of my companions, I take advantage of it. ...

Cincinnati - Page 139
The commerce of Cincinnati is principally confined to lard and hams. Three or four millions of hams are forwarded from this, the largest city of Ohio, ...

Seville - Page 91
They did not understand one word of Spanish; had never seen the country, only the Hotel Anglais of Cadiz, of Seville, and of.

Nuremberg - Page 109
Figure to yourself one of those boxes of toys in painted wood from Nuremberg, with their polished white little houses with red roofs, and their trees ...

Panama - Page 405
The English steamer is a dozen miles distant from Panama. A little steamer—in which are piled our trunks, upon which the whole of the sisters and the ...

Norwich - Page 242
At every village on the road we take up young girla from the seminaries who are going to Norwich to be present at the concert. ...

Vancouver - Page 397
whole of the islands, afterwards he armed a brig which he had kept when Vancouver made his voyage of discovery, and with the assistance of two English ...

Cologne - Page 435
The floor and alleys had been watered with eau de Cologne, and every lady received on entering the hall an enormous bouquet of roses and magnolias. ...

Southampton - Page 108
It is also the point of junction of all the English and American steamers, a network of which extends from Southampton and Kew York to the Isthmus of ...

Guanajay - Page 99
My two physicians, fearing a malignant fever, had prescribed absolute rest for me, and I was to pass my convalescence in the jurisdiction of Guanajay, ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Page 165
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, December 5. There were many soldiers in the audience. The hotel very passable, and the landlord did all he could to be agreeable to ...

Norwalk - Page 240
Norwalk is a pretty town, picturesque position. It is ten miles from the town to the station, properly speaking. The road is wide and shaded with ...

Athens - Page 310
the reputation which she bears, and answers to the idea which one forms voluntarily of the culture and urbanity of the society of the modern Athens. ...

Marseilles - Page 214
Recalled to France, I embarked at Cadiz for Marseilles. The vessel putting in at Almeria, we landed, Ramon and I. Arrived at the Plaza de Armas, ...

Cochabamba - Page 449
ceased and the storms of the Andes being over, a caravan of French travellers start to-morrow on the way to Cochabamba and stop on the road at La Paz. ...

Gibraltar - Page 103
A poem on the taking of Gibraltar, for example, where, swimming in the midst of Homeric denouncements, and of furious imprecations against the English ...

New Brunswick - Page 239
Harry Sanderson himself also tried a chance at New Brunswick (take notice that it is the most liberal place of all in New Jersey for concerts), ...

Portsmouth - Page 152
This evening a concert at Portsmouth. Extraordinary enthusiasm. All the pieces encored. The hall is used on Sunday as a church. It is an amphitheatre. ...

Watertown - Page 281
The rats have feasted all night under one of the feet of my bed, and have kept me awake. We start at six o'clock for Watertown. Reach there at 24*.

Almeria - Page 214
The vessel putting in at Almeria, we landed, Ramon and I. Arrived at the Plaza de Armas, my attention was attracted by a Bohemian (gypsy), ...

Iquique - Page 448
I shall not be able, without imprudence, to go south to Iquique, where I was thinking of giving a concert. What am I to do? Where shall I go? ...

Poughkeepsie - Page 270
Poughkeepsie has several large boarding-schools for young ladies and one or two large colleges. One of them, 'College Hill,' is situated on a hill ...

Ann Arbor, Michigan - Page 331
Quit Kalamazoo for Ann Arbor, Michigan. Arrived at five o'clock. (Train behindhand.) A flourishing little village which particularly owes its ...

Sacramento - Page 392
The town, or rather the village, resembles Sacramento on a very small scale: several churches, pretty little cot-.

Turin - Page 91
V., they would return from thence to Turin. They each wrote daily their impressions of their travels. The Count do Maluperta, a learned philosopher, ...

Norfolk, Virginia - Page 70
he traversed the New England, Middle, and Western States, and Canada; from the Atlantic? to the Pacific, and as far south as Norfolk, Virginia. ...

Canandaigua - Page 161
Wood, who first settled at Canandaigua, was his friend. He was an old man who died many years ago. He had never failed during his life to paint with ...

DAYTON, Nevada - Page 385
DAYTON, Nevada, June 9. A small village, seven miles from Virginia City. Sitting before the door of the inn, I am tranquilly smoking my cigar, ...

Georgetown - Page 146
The convent is at Georgetown, three miles from Wash-ington, on an eminence which overlooks the country. There is nothing more picturesque. ...

New Haven - Page 153
The country is delicious: a little bay very near New Haven; the sea on the right; nice sailing parties riding at anchor; a cluster of trees behind a ...

Hagerstown - Page 202
The Confederates, says the despatch, have seized Martinsburg, and are making forced marches on Hagerstown. This last town is only forty-five miles ...

Milwaukee - Page 229
Poor Strakosch, after two hours of superhuman effort, has come back from the telegraph station, from whence he sent a despatch to Milwaukee, ...

Bonn - Page 235
andante (which recalls, in the first bars, ' Batti' of Don Juan) is one of the sweetest, most tender,-and brightest inspirations of the giant of Bonn. ...

BURLINGTON, Vermont - Page 154
BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 3. A small town built on Lake Champlain. I have never seen in Switzerland anything more beautiful than the mountains which ...

Guayaquil - Page 448
changes all my plans of travel,—the intention of the Spaniards being indubitably to go up the coast as far as Guayaquil and burn all the ports. ...

Baton-Rouge - Page 206
killed near Baton-Rouge; and that young madwoman of theNorth, AD , unfortunately endowed with eloquence, who, for some time has gone about 'lecturing ...

Guatemala - Page 407
Some one was lately relating to me that in a procession at Guatemala during holy week, the devotees, no longer satisfied with the large wooden Christ ...

Manchester - Page 108
All these are stored in vast warehouses, true chaoses, where are found all the products of Europe, from the muslins of Manchester and the silks of ...

Newport - Page 233
Near to Providence (at Newport) is the United States Naval School, and a naval station of great importance. The State of Rhode Island is the smallest ...

Binghamton - Page 264
I have telegraphed to Strakosch, who has been in Scranton since this morning, that I shall go back and stop at Binghamton, where I am to give a ...

Trenton - Page 238
I had the imprudence to try once more my chance at Trenton, some months ago. Result, forty-nine.

Chesapeake - Page 143
Chesapeake, the width of which is considerable in this place. CHESAPEAKE. Crossed in going to 'Washington 27 May, 1862. Springtime. Health below zero. ...

Nashville - Page 206
The ladies of Baltimore, of Nashville, and St. Louis, crying as loud as they can bawl, "Hurrah for Jeft'erson Davis' • in the presence of wounded ...

PORTLAND, Maine - Page 152
PORTLAND, Maine, June 6. A magnificent concert—the most beautiful I have had for many years. I played admirably. Encored ; recalled. ...

Barcelona - Page 113
The last political events at Barcelona (La Cote ferme) are of a nature to cure radically all artists who have the insane idea of making a tour there. ...

Vicksburg - Page 211
The three pretended captures of Charleston, and that of Vicksburg, a year ago, the death of Jefferson Davis, and so many other canards have been very ...

Hamburg - Page 222
young German from Hamburg, who wears spectacles, is a good musician, and has a good heart. He has two weaknesses (who has them not?). ...

Santiago - Page 116
This sad event took place at Santiago three months ago. I was carried off in three days by a frightful attack of black vomit; it is the newspaper of' ...

Montevideo - Page 468
I do not know if I have already spoken of the son of the dictator Flores, of Montevideo, who has acquired through his misdeeds the sad celebrity of a ...
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Don Carlos - Page 460
and to entertain us with all the respect due to persons of high importance, he does his best so that Don Carlos maybe pleased with him. ...

Saint Pierre - Page 111
a distinguished guitarist, who, after travelling and giving concerts through all America, has come to establish himself at Saint Pierre. ...

Jerusalem - Page 295
on railroads would be as doubtful as those of the King of Sardinia to the kingdom of Jerusalem, or of those of Iiichard Wagner to the coming races, ...

Honolulu - Page 398
Honolulu, in the island of Oahu, is the capital of the kingdom, and the residence of the court. It possesses an admirably sheltered port, ...