{"product_id":"18476-gottschalk-louis-moreau-the-last-hope","title":"Gottschalk, Louis Moreau. (1829–1869) \"The Last Hope\"","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThree early editions of the composer's \"The Last Hope.\"  Two editions share plate numbers, but are slightly different in their layout and have different price indications.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\"The Last Hope: Religious Meditation.\"  Upright folio.  New York: William Hall \u0026amp; Son.  12 pp.  Lithograph.  [PN] 3515.  Priced at 7.5¢.  Disbound from larger volume.  Wear to left edge, else fine.  9.75 x 13.25 inches (24.8 x 33.6 cm.).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\"The Last Hope: Religious Meditation.\"  Upright folio.  New York: William Hall \u0026amp; Son.  12 pp.  Lithograph.  [PN] 3515.  Priced at 12.5¢.  Disbound from larger volume.  Wear to left edge, cover page separated, else fine.  9.75 x 13.25 inches (24.8 x 33.6 cm.).\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\"The Celebrated Last Hope.\"  Upright folio.  Chicago \u0026amp; New York: McKinley Music Co.  10 pp.  Lithograph.  [PN] 640-8.  In fine condition.  10.25 x 13.75 inches (26 x 34.9 cm.).\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eGottschalk wrote in his diary that a publisher, Hall of New York, \"'wished to possess my works written before those he had just published, and having faith in my talent as a composer, he addressed the publisher of the melancholy piece I have already spoken of, for the purpose of buying it.  \"Willingly,\" was the reply. \"It does not sell at all; pay me the fifty dollars it cost me, and it is yours.\"  This little piece was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eLast Hope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, of which more than thirty-five thousand copies have been published in America, and which still produces yearly to its publisher, after a run of more than twelve years, twenty times the amount that it cost him.' \u003c\/span\u003eThis revised version of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Hope\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1855. The piece followed Gottschalk around in the same way that Rachmaninov’s \u003ci\u003eC sharp minor Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e dogged its composer half a century later. 'Invariably,’ wrote Gottschalk, ‘at every concert a small, scribbled, note requests me to play \u003ci\u003eLast Hope\u003c\/i\u003e. The other day I received one composed as follows: “Would Mr. G. kindly please 36 young girls by playing \u003ci\u003eThe Last Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, which they all play”.’\" (Hyperion Records)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093684080799,"sku":"18476","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Gottschalk_Louis_Moreau_Sheet_Music_18476d.jpg?v=1722189679","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/18476-gottschalk-louis-moreau-the-last-hope","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}