Chevalier: The life of composer Joseph Bologne - Movie Review

Chevalier and the life of composer Joseph Bologne: Why the mean-spirited attack on Mozart and Gluck? (14:53 min) Audio Mp3 - https://xenagoguevicene.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/chevalierfin.mp3
Chevalier, directed by Stephen Williams and written by Stefani Robinson, is a biographical film inspired by the life and career of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), the French-Caribbean violinist, conductor and composer.

Bologne’s mother was a slave on his father’s plantation in Guadeloupe, the French colony in the Caribbean. Raised and educated in France, Bologne became renowned for his music as well as his fencing and other skills. The future American president, John Adams, in 1779 referred to Bologne as “the most accomplished Man in Europe in Riding, Running, Shooting, Fencing, Dancing, Musick.” Bologne/Saint-Georges was very much a figure of the Enlightenment, the epoch which, in the first place, made possible the emergence of the son of a slave as a leading artistic and social personality.... (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/chevalier-the-life-of-composer-joseph-bologne-movie-review-july-2023/ )