Tags: Classical Music Composition.
La Savane (The Savannah) Op. 3 is a composition in the form of a ballade written for piano in 1846 by the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. With the subtitle Ballade Créole it was first published in 1849 by Gottschalk’s publisher ‘Escudiers’ and again in 1850 by Editions Schott with a dedication to Maria II of Portugal on the composer’s assumption that a trip from Madrid to Lisbon during his concert tour in the spring of that year would be likely to happen.