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Fantastically Terrible Podcast Ep15: Black Classical Music Pioneer Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Continuing from our previous episode, we’re going to stay in France during the revolution to talk about a man who is larger than life – Joseph Bologne or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799). He not only defies conventional thinking, even in our own time, he was a real life hero of epic proportions! If you mix Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee with the world’s most celebrated musical genius, you’ll start to get a good idea. The next time you think of the great composers of classical music, remember the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He earned his place in history and came BEFORE Mozart! [Scroll down to read more…]

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Deep dive…

Learn more…

Joseph de Bolonge/Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) (Black Past)
The life of ‘Black Mozart’, 18th-century composer Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Chevalier de Saint-Georges (wiki)
Chevalier de Saint-George Joseph Boulogne Biography (boarding school)
Chevalier de Saint-George (French wiki)
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)Afro-French Composer, Violinist & Conductor
9 Black composers who changed the course of classical music history
Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de St Georges Le Mozart NoirReviving A Legend (Part 1) 
Slavery in the French Colonies: Le Code Noir (the Black Code) of 1685

Historic images

Chevalier de Saint-Georges (multiple)
Illustrations at National Library of France (2 and 3)
Sheet music (Six Quartetto Concertans pour deux violons, alto et basse)
Buste du Chevalier de Saint-Georges, violoniste by Jules Géruzet

And more…

Garibaldi and Dumas: When History and Literature United to Change a Nation
Slavery in the French Colonies: Le Code Noir (the Black Code) of 1685
The history of the idea of race
People of Color in European Art History
Enlightenment, Scientific Racism and Slavery : A Historical Point by Dave Foutz (quotes from Voltaire and others)
How The Arc De Triomphe Was Nearly An Elephant
How black women were whitewashed by art
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (book pdf)
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
★ “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe” (book pdf)

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