Mes Voyages en Amérique

Henri Herz was the first European pianist to undertake (in his case, so as to keep his piano manufacturing business afloat) a large-scale concert tour: over the course of five years (from the autumn of 1846 to the summer of 1851) he gave almost two hundred concerts in nearly fifty towns, from the eastern seaboard of the United States to California, by way of Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Chili, and Peru. He was also the first musician, along with Louis Gottschalk (Les Voyages extraordinaires de Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianiste et aventurier), Henri Kowalski (À travers l’Amérique, impressions d’un musicien, 1872), and Jacques Offenbach (Notes d’un musicien en voyage, 1877) to describe his impressions of travel in America.

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genreAutobiography (Memoirs)
editorAchille Faure
place of publicationParis
years of publication1866
pages328
languagesfrançais
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