Louis F. Gottschalk
Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk (October 7, 1864 – July 15, 1934) was an American
was his great-uncle.Career
He came to attention as conductor of the U.S. premiere of
independent filmmaker L. Frank Baum, for whom he composed the musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, to Baum's libretto, which producer Oliver Morosco decided not to bring to Broadway
after only modest success in Los Angeles. The show ran in 1913 and closed in early 1914, by which time Baum and Gottschalk were discussing getting involved in the nascent film industry that had been springing up in Hollywood, where both had been living at the time.
Baum, as
The Patchwork Girl of Oz, The Magic Cloak of Oz, His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, and The Last Egyptian (all 1914), at a time when cue sheets
were the norm. He also wrote several stage musicals with Baum for The Uplifters, including Stagecraft, or, The Adventures of a Strictly Moral Man (1914), High Jinks (1914), The Uplift of Lucifer, or Raising Hell: An Allegorical Squazosh (1915), Blackbird Cottages (1916), and The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (1917).
After the Oz company dissolved, Gottschalk went on to work with
Charles Chaplin's A Woman of Paris
(1923), but Chaplin replaced it with a score of his own when Chaplin re-released the film in 1976.
Death
Gottschalk died of a stroke of paralysis at his Los Angeles home on July 16, 1934 at the age of 70.[3]
Additional works
- A. Baldwin Sloane, Louis F. Gottschalk, William J. Accooe (1875–1904), and Mae Anwerda Sloane, 1901.
- White-Smith Music Publishing Company, 1904.
Broadway conducting credits
- The Ameer Dec 4, 1899 - Jan 20, 1900
- The Messenger Boy Sep 16, 1901 - Jan 4, 1902
- The Toreador Jan 6, 1902 - May 3, 1902
- Red Feather Nov 9, 1903 - Apr 1904
- The Cingalee Oct 24, 1904 - Nov 19, 1904
- The Gingerbread Man Dec 25, 1905 - May 26, 1906
- The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer Oct 22, 1906 - Mar 30, 1907
- Dream City Dec 24, 1906 - Mar 23, 1907
- The Merry Widow Oct 21, 1907 - Oct 17, 1908
- Old Dutch Nov 22, 1909 - Feb 5, 1910
- The Red Rose Jun 22, 1911 - Sep 1911
- Gypsy Love Oct 17, 1911 - Nov 11, 1911
- Modest SuzanneJan 1, 1912 - Jan 20, 1912
- The Century Girl Nov 6, 1916 - Apr 28, 1917
References
- ^ The New York Times obituary.
- ^ McPherson, Jim "The Savage Innocents--Part 2: On the Road with Parsifal, Butterfly, the Widow, and the Girl." The Opera Quarterly - Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 28-63
- ^ "Louis F. Gottschalk, Composer of Light Opera, Dies After Stroke." The New York Times, July 17, 1934.
External links
- Louis F. Gottschalk at the Internet Broadway Database
- Louis F. Gottschalk at IMDb
