Chevalier de Saint-Georges
The Early Music Show - A podcast by BBC Radio 3
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Fiona Talkington looks at the life and music of Joseph 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".
