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1829 - Born of a Jewish businessman from London and a white Creole Haitian in New Orleans on the 8th of May.
1840 - He gave his informal public debut at the new St. Charles Hotel.
1853 - His return to the United States, Gottschalk travelled extensively.
1860 - Gottschalk had established himself as the foremost pianist in the New World.
1865 - He was forced to leave the United States as the result of what was regarded as a scandalous affair with a student at the Oakland Female Seminary.
1869 - During one of these concerts, in Rio de Janeiro onthe 24th of November, he collapsed, the result of a burst appendix. Much was made of the fact that, just before his collapse, he had finished playing his romantic piece Morte.
- Gottschalk never recovered from the collapse and three weeks later, on the 18th of December, died at his hotel in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1840 - He gave his informal public debut at the new St. Charles Hotel.
1853 - His return to the United States, Gottschalk travelled extensively.
1860 - Gottschalk had established himself as the foremost pianist in the New World.
1865 - He was forced to leave the United States as the result of what was regarded as a scandalous affair with a student at the Oakland Female Seminary.
1869 - During one of these concerts, in Rio de Janeiro onthe 24th of November, he collapsed, the result of a burst appendix. Much was made of the fact that, just before his collapse, he had finished playing his romantic piece Morte.
- Gottschalk never recovered from the collapse and three weeks later, on the 18th of December, died at his hotel in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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