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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.(Le Mozart Noir)(Sound Recording Review)
Le Mozart Noir. Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon. CBC SMCD 5225, 2003.
Born around 1745 to a wealthy plantation owner in Basse-Terre, Guadaloupe and his mistress, a Senegalese slave, Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges was treated as a full member of his father's family and, upon the family's relocation to France, received the best education his father could provide. He was, by all accounts, an exceptionally gifted student. Although details of his musical educationare elusive in the historical record, he obviously received formal training at some point, for his worklist includes several comic operas, at least fourteen symphonies and concertos, and a handful of chamber works. Referring to him as the "Black Mozart" is questionable on several levels, not least that of racial condescension (had he been Italian, would we be calling him the "Italian Mozart"?). More to the musical point, his compositions, while impressive and certainly enjoyable, do not stand up particularly well to the comparison. But they certainly deserve more attention than they have received in this century, and this ...
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- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review March 1, 2007 700+ words
...for Young Readers February 2007, $18.95, ISBN 0-810-95720-5 Ages 8-14 Here is the little-known biography of Joseph Bologne, the son of slave and a wealthy French nobleman, who moved from Guadeloupe to Paris, where he was educated as a young...
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...of many musicians passed over in traditional historical narratives (e.g. Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Ignaz Holzbauer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges) make this volume a valuable contribution to the literature on the eighteenth century...
- The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Higgins, Diane June 1, 2007 700+ words
...the struggle for Haitian independence. Born to a slave mother and a wealthy French father on the island of Guadeloupe, Joseph Bologne was renamed Chevalier de Saint-George and educated as a young aristocrat in Paris, France. Known as the other Mozart...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) November 15, 2005 700+ words
...clarinet, horn and bassoon. Don't ask. After the interval the engaging though brief D major Second Symphony of swordsman, violinist and composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, born in Guadaloupe of a black slave mother and French...
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- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Terrell, Kenneth Silver, Marc February 23, 2004 700+ words
`One day this boy meet the king of France," the midwife prophesied on Christmas Day, 1739, as she ushered Joseph Bologne into the world on the island of Guadeloupe. Though his father was a French nobleman, there was little reason to expect...
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