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Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges(December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799), was a FrenchCreolevirtuoso violinist and composer, who was conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris.
Saint-Georges was born in the then French colony ofGuadeloupe, the son of Georges de Bologne Saint-Georges, a wealthy married planter, and an enslaved African woman named Nanon. At the age of seven he was taken to France, and at the age of thirteen educated asgendarmeto the King. He received music lessons from François-Joseph Gossec and likely violin lessons from Jean-Marie Leclair, while continuing to study fencing.
In 1764 Antonio Lolli dedicated two concertos to Saint-Georges. In 1769 he joined a new symphony orchestra; two years later he was appointed concert master and soon started composing. In 1773 he was appointed conductor of "Le Concert des Amateurs". In 1775 he introduced the symphonie concertante, using the possibilities offered by a newbow. In 1776 he was proposed as the next conductor of the Paris Opera, but was subsequently denied this role by a petition by the divas of the time to the Queen. This then put an end to any aspirations that Saint-Georges had to becoming the music director of the institution. In 1778 he lived for 2.5 months next to Mozart in the Chaussee d'Antinand stopped composing instrumental works in 1785. He knew many composers, including Salieri,Gossec,Gretry,Mozart and Gluck. He commissioned and performed the Paris Symphonies by Haydn and travelled to London where he met with the Prince of Wales and George IIIin 1787.
Following the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution, the younger Saint-Georges served as a colonel of the Légion St.-Georges(established in 1792), the first all-African regiment in Europe, fighting on the side of the French First Republic. Today the Chevalier de Saint-Georges is best remembered as the first well-known classical composer of African ancestry. He composed numerous string quartets and other instrumental pieces, violin concertos as well as operas. Ludwig van Beethoven held his music and his views very highly.
Joseph Bologne was born in Baillif, Basse-Terre as the son of a planter and former councilor at the parliament of Metz, Georges de Bologne Saint-Georges (1711–1774) and Nanon, his wife's 16-year-old enslaved African servant of Senegalese origin, who served as her personal maid. Bologne was legally married to Elisabeth Mérican (1722–1801) but acknowledged his son by Nanon and gave him his surname
Starting in the 17th century, a Code Noir had been law in France and its colonial possessions. On April 5, 1762, King Louis XV decreed that "Nègres et gens de couleur" (Africans and people of color) must register with the clerk of the Admiralty within two months. Many leading Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire argued that Africans and their descendants were inferior to White Europeans. These laws and racist attitudes towards mixed-race people made it impossible for Joseph Bologne to marry anybody at his level of society, though he did have at least one serious romantic relationship.
Musical life and career
François-Joseph Gossec
Nothing is known about Saint-Georges' early musical training. Given his prodigious technique as an adult, Saint-Georges must have practiced the violin seriously as a child. There has been no documentation found of him as a musician before 1764, when violinistAntonio Lollicomposed two concertos, Op. 2, for him,[note 1]and 1766, when composerFrançois-Joseph Gossecdedicated a set of six string trios, Op. 9,to Saint Georges. Lolli may have worked with Bologne on his violin technique and Gossec on compositions.
(Beauvoir's novel says that "Platon", a fictional whip-toting slave commander onSaint-Domingue, "taught little Saint-Georges" the violin.[note 2])
Historians have discountedFrançois-Joseph Fétis' claim that Saint-Georges studied violin withJean-Marie Leclair. Some of his technique was said to reveal influence byPierre Gaviniès. Other composers who later dedicated works to Saint-Georges wereCarl Stamitzin 1770, and Avolio in 1778.
In 1769, the Parisian public was amazed to see Saint-Georges, the great fencer, playing as a violinist in Gossec's new orchestra,Le Concert des Amateurs. Four years later he became its concertmaster/conductor. In 1772 Saint-Georges created a sensation with his debut as a soloist, playing his first two violin concertos, Op. II, with Gossec conducting the orchestra. "These concertos were performed last winter at a concert of theAmateursby the author himself, who received great applause as much for their performance as for their composition." According to another source, "The celebrated Saint-Georges,mulatto fencer [and] violinist, created a sensation in Paris ... [when] two years later ... at theConcert Spirituel, he was appreciated not as much for his compositions as for his performances, enrapturing especially the feminine members of his audience."
Young Saint-Georges in 1768, aged 22. The three roses on his lapel were a Masonic symbol.
Saint-Georges's first compositions, Op. I, were a set of six string quartets, among the first in France, published by famed French publisher, composer, and teacherAntoine Bailleux. They were inspired byHaydn's earliest quartets, brought from Vienna by Baron Bagge. Saint-Georges wrote two more sets of six string quartets, threeforte-pianoand violin sonatas, a sonata for harp and flute, and six violin duets. The music for three other known compositions was lost: a cello sonata, performed in Lille in 1792, a concerto for clarinet, and one for bassoon.
Saint-Georges wrote twelve additional violin concertos, two symphonies, and eightsymphonie-concertantes, a new, intrinsically Parisian genre of which he was one of the chief exponents. He wrote his instrumental works over a short span of time, and they were published between 1771 and 1779. He also wrote sixopéras comiquesand a number of songs in manuscript.
In 1773, when Gossec took over the direction of the prestigiousConcert Spirituel, he designated Saint-Georges as his successor as director of theConcert des Amateurs. After fewer than two years under the younger man's direction, the group was described[by whom?]as "Performing with great precision and delicate nuances [and] became the best orchestra for symphonies in Paris, and perhaps in all of Europe."
Palais de Soubise, venue of Saint-Georges' orchestra
In 1781, Saint Georges'sConcert des Amateurshad to be disbanded due to a lack of funding. Playwright andSecret du RoispyPierre Caron de Beaumarchaisbegan to collect funds from private contributors, including many of theConcert'spatrons, to sendmaterielaid for the American cause. The plan to send military aid via a fleet of fifty vessels and have those vessels return withAmerican rice, cotton, or tobacco ended up bankrupting the French contributors as theAmerican congressfailed to acknowledge its debt and the ships were sent back empty. Saint-Georges turned to his friend and admirer,Philippe D'Orléans, duc de Chartres, for help. In 1773 at the age of 26, Philippe had been elected Grand Master of the 'Grand Orient de France' after uniting all the Masonic organizations in France. Responding to Saint-Georges's plea, Philippe revived the orchestra as part of theLoge Olympique, an exclusive Freemason Lodge.
RenamedLe Concert Olympique, with practically the same personnel, it performed in the grand salon of thePalais Royal. In 1785, Count D'Ogny, grand master of the Lodge and a member of its cello section, authorized Saint-Georges to commissionHaydnto composesix new symphoniesfor the Concert Olympique. Conducted by Saint-Georges, Haydn's "Paris" symphonies were first performed at the Salle desGardes-Suissesof theTuileries, a much larger hall, in order to accommodate the huge public demand to hear Haydn's new works. QueenMarie Antoinetteattended some of Saint-Georges's concerts at the Palais de Soubise, arriving sometimes without notice, so the orchestra wore court attire for all its performances. "Dressed in rich velvet or damask with gold or silver braid and fine lace on their cuffs and collars and with their parade swords and plumed hats placed next to them on their benches, the combined effect was as pleasing to the eye as it was flattering to the ear." Saint-Georges played all his violin concertos as soloist with his orchestra.
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The Untold Story of Joseph Bologne, the Prodigy known as "Black Mozart"
Joseph Bologne, the Prodigy known as "Black Mozart
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St Sebastian - cemetery - Salzburg
#canon#original photographers#photographers on tumblr#original photography#photography#black and white#black and white photography#austria#salzburg#cemetery#friedhof#st sebastian#paracelsus#mozart
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Classical music is so underrated. It takes me through such an intense emotional rollercoaster.
#classical music#classic literature#classic academia#swan lake#black swan#girlblogger#lana del rey#romantizing school#autumn aesthetic#the nutcracker#ballet#ballerina#pointe shoes#royal ballet#dancer#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#tchaikovsky#mozart
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Vampyre Moodboard IV
#silent film#nosferatu kind of vibes#idk really he looks so hot#aneurin barnard#aesthetics#moodboard#black and white#vampire#vampyre#interlude in prague#mozart
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pretty sure the reason i'm Like This is because of the time my high school music teacher made us watch amadeus (1984) in class when i was like 15
#& by Like This i mean. 1) bisexual 2) fixated on toxic doomed yaoi#i still haven't seen mozart l'opera rock but oohhhh my god. that one's gonna be a Situation someday when i do get around to it#goth-ass salieri with his black velvet tailcoat and emo bangs. Regrettably; This Hole Was Made For Me#wild shrieks.txt#sorry about my posts#but not sorry enough not to post them
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that 'black inventions' post circulating currently has so many crazy inaccuracies, but for me to say so, i'd need to prove it, and to prove it i'd have to basically write an essay, and if i write a ton of info, people will wonder why i spent so much time to argue with and write about a pro black post and no matter what i'll look dodgy as hell (even i'd feel weird doing so), so i guess i'll just ignore it :')
#the most baffling to me is including people that are literally white#but apparently there's myths and conspiracies that they're black despite the total evidence of their race#it's like the 'beethoven and mozart were black' conspiracies#it really is a disservice to the many brilliant black inventors and historical figures#to either misrepresent their accomplishments#or outright use myths and conspiracies instead
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Howl’s moving castle AU with Dantès as Howl, Salieri as Sophia and Jalter Lily as Markl—
#I typed this as I sit in middle of court hearing about a robbery#one hand typing court proceedings protocol other typing this#salieri is a timid person who tutors music and isn’t really that sociable#Mozart be trying to drag him out for parties and gatherings#listen the mental image of Salieri’s black hair going gray white#Dantès is a powerful mage and has several personas he starts to lose himself to a curse#little living flame is real him and his pure heart as a last citadel against his certain death#jalter lily being true mvp by looking after Dantès’ pathetic ass that has no self preservation skills#jalter lily is also cursed and Dantes took pity on a child whose existence is a curse#salieri leaves his old life thinking he’s not that good musician to begin with and after he became old his hand shake so badly#he can’t play piano#so what’s the point really#I think I reached revelation and ascended in my knowledge#three of them going through this all by sheer force of revenge#salieri fell first but dantes fell harder#jalter lily just watching this mess and be like ‘seriously right on front of my sundae’
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Check out this adorable commission by @mitsurugireiji.
Aren't they so cute? Mozart such a sweetheart and gentleman underneath his cold exterior. ^^
Hngh, so much pink!!! 😍😍😍💗💗💗
His commissions are currently open so please check him out. 💖
Reblogs ok!
#crystal's commissions#oc: zinnia#❄ crush tag#zinnia x mozart#ikevamp oc#ikevam oc#ikemen vampire oc#oc x canon#夢女子#yumejoshi#self insert oc#black self insert#black selfship#crystal's box of treasures#other's art#black oc
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why of all things are hotep posts being recommended to me on fb
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Compose yourself with this stimboard of Mozart from Mozart L'opéra Rock and Mozart! das Musical for anon
#stimboard#stimming#mozart#Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#mozart l'opera rock#mozart! das musical#mozart l'opera rock stimboard#mozart! das musical stimboard#mozart stimboard#wolfgang amadeus mozart stimboard#piano#slime#writing#music sheets#candles#cat#black#white#tan#classical
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Not gonna eloborate on the context
#I was always a mozart fan anyway#winx#winx club fanart#winx club#winx fanart#wizards of the black circle duman#wizards of the black circle#winx black circle#winx stella#winx duman#winx club stella fanart#winx stella fanart#stella#winx dumella#dumella#dumn x stella#stella x duman
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“maybe you wewent twying to huwt me... i-im sowwy..”
A self indulgent stimboard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Diary of A Tourney Kid!
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#stim#stimblr#stimboard#visual stim#stimmy#irl hands#black#white#doatk#diary of a tourney kid#mozart#wolfgang amadeus mozart#cat boy#cats#paws#music#writing#caligraphy#piano#guitar#punk#clothing#fishnet
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the side effects of experiencing all this funeral stuff from this up close is honestly that im just starting to plan my own funeral in my head to entertain myself and it also kinda stopped me from being suicidal because i realised no one but me could do it right
#obv i cant kill myself now because that would completely destroy my mother but also because she'd give me catholic funeral#and that would honestly make me come back from the dead just so i could kms again#anyway the real ones will come to my funeral dressed in pink <3 and no open casket unless they really manage to make me look fabulous#i want rainbow flowers (with green carnations!) and i want it to be a met gala level fashion show dont yall dare wear boring black outfits#i want mozart to play and no catholic priests allowed. if a catholic priest tries to go near me all guests should get together to kill him#also saw a grave of some 16y/o girl apparently obsessed with h/arry p/otter today and as much as i hate HP it was AWESOME#she had a bunch of little funko pops figures there and even a hp candle#and there was obv a cross with jesus on it but he had that little ball with wings on a translucent thread tied to his hand lol#and there was also a framed picture of her and her friends goofing off and pointing their middle fingers at the camera and like. yeah#obv very sad but this is the kind of grave id like. obv not with fucking hp 💀 but i feel so fucking uncomfortable with the thought#that people might come to my grave and be all solemn and cry and make a big deal out of it like plz ffs dont#i mean obv i wouldnt be uncomfortable cause id be. well. dead. but if my funeral is boring and/or catholic then fuck this im just not dying
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