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Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Fiona Talkington looks at the life and music of Joseph de Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges - virtuoso violinist and composer, known in 18th-century Paris as 'The Black Mozart'.

Fiona Talkington looks at the life and music of Joseph de Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) - the son of a French plantation owner and his slave mistress - who became a virtuoso violinist and composer, close friend of Queen Marie Antoinette, and was known in 18th-century Paris as "The Black Mozart".

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