His first symphony was orchestrated in original form by Igor Buketoff and is subtitled "A Night in the Tropics," written prior to his 13-minute opera entitled Escenas Compestres.
prompt on _CP_-symmetry]  This composer wrote newspaper columns under the pseudonym "Seven Octaves," discussing such figures as George Swaine Buckley. His first symphony was orchestrated in original form by Igor Buketoff and is subtitled "A Night in the Tropics," written prior to his 13-minute opera entitled Escenas Compestres. During a bout with typhoid fever, he stayed at the sanatorium of Eugene Wollez and composed the piece "Bamboula," which titles a biography of this composer by S. Frederick Starr. Late in life, he composed the popular pieces The Dying Poet and The Last Hope. FTP, name this 19th century American piano virtuoso who is undoubtedly the best-known Creole composer born in Louisiana.
prompt on _CP_-symmetry]  This composer wrote newspaper columns under the pseudonym "Seven Octaves," discussing such figures as George Swaine Buckley.
Louis Moreau {Gottschalk}