Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Pasquinade (Caprice, Op. 59) 1862 (Classical Syncopation Piano Synthesia)

[@itsRemco]

A very interesting piece from 1826! Dick Hyman starts explaining Ragtime by playing this piece in his piano lessons documentary. Part 1 is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmiYeYiMireda6M

[@martycli9299]

Amazing piece of music and very interesting biography. Marvelous upload :)

[@LDL-s6c]

Finally a Classical piece, with syncopation, never heard of this guy, but this is really revolutionary for the time period it was written in, this may actually be the new first ragtime piece ever, this predates even Ernest Hogan's "La pas ma la." Which is usually considered to be the oldest ragtime piece ever.

[@PiotrBarcz]

This isn't ragtime, it's not even close, it's a totally different genre influenced by Caribbean dance music if I'm not mistaken. The first thing that's even close to ragtime would be the Shinplaster jig.

[@LDL-s6c]

@@PiotrBarcz it's actually influenced by the same african rhythms ragtime was influenced by, but it does have some Porto Rican folk music influence, but no it's not fully developed ragtime it's a precursor to ragtime, it's not even carribean dance music either, if we're being specific it's a fusion, between African rhythm and syncopation, Porto Rican folk music, and romantic era classical music, so really its it's own genre entirely.

[@itsRemco]

⁠Really love those discussions! Dick Hyman said that Gottschalk got inspired by black folk music, see the pinned comment and check out the lesson 1 video 👌🏾

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@itsRemco I did watch that part.

[@TheRandomChannel-4884]

It's pretty incredible that this was written that early! (Also you wrote 1862 in the title but in the comments you wrote 1826)

[@itsRemco]

@@TheRandomChannel-4884 ohh I meant 1862* haha sharp!

[@Ðez]

fascinating!

[@itsRemco]

@@Ðez right? And that for a 1826 piece hahah wayyy before Ragtime. Really shows that syncopation already was a known piano technique

[@PiotrBarcz]

It's a misconception that this is a protoragtime piece, Shinplaster Jig is the first better example of just barely precakewalk music. Carribean influenced music is quite interesting on its own though.

[@Dom-qw9ts]

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