Black Classical Composers and Musicians
Black people have composed and performed classical music as long as the genre has existed. King Henry VIII had a Black trumpeter, John Blanke. Beethoven wrote the Kreutzer Sonata for a Black violinist, George Bridgetower (1780-1860... [more]
Black people have composed and performed classical music as long as the genre has existed. King Henry VIII had a Black trumpeter, John Blanke. Beethoven wrote the Kreutzer Sonata for a Black violinist, George Bridgetower (1780-1860). Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) was a leading Afro-French composer, violinist and conductor in Paris. He regularly played music at Versailles with Queen Marie-Antoinette.
Lessingham93: 'found interesting data on Joseph de Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges'
[Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Op. 5, Nos. 1 & 2; Op. 3, No. 1; Op. 8, No. 9; Bernard Thomas Chamber Orchestra; Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Violin; Arion 68093 (1990)]
lessingham93 wrote, @ 2008-10-07Conflux - airplanes and fencing
"I also found interesting data on Joseph de Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Also a famous fencer and a violinist and composer. He comes up quite easily on a google search. Half black and given honors at an unprecedented early age for his fencing and military pursuits he went on to become a famous composer.” [Full Post] [Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) is profiled at length, and a dozen audio samples of his music are provided, at AfriClassical.com, a website devoted to African Heritage in Classical Music]
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