Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges: Violin Concerto op 5, Itamar Zorman

Violinist Itamar Zorman,with Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ariel Zuckerman
Live performance and Israeli premiere of Bologne at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 2021
Bologne concerto in A major , op 5 n 2 written around 1770:
0:16 - Allegro Moderato
11:32 - Largo
17:51 - Rondeau

[@JadynMardy]

I came here from watching the movie Chevilier which is a film about this composer! Incredible young man I'm glad I've now heard his music, so beautiful

[@iam4ualways62754]

Wow-- did you heat that! A Franco-African man WROTE that and played at that level! Bravo to the musicians who are playing his music. How could we have ignored this magnificent music for so long?

[@anaiscarpaille2677]

A Frenchman born in Guadeloupe.

[@jeromefox1932]

Master violinist, master conductor and master composer, Colonel in the French army, greatest sword master in Europe, prodigy and beat four thugs with a walking stick. Incredible human being.

[@darkplanetmoon]

Just learned about this man tonight. Oh, and he was considered the finest swordsman of his time in Europe.Watch: The Untold Story of Joseph Bologne: Prodigy Swordsman and Violinist.

[@jorgesantossilva3924]

Josephe Bologne, simplesmente inigualável.

[@shiningstar6659]

Excellent performance, it is wonderful seeing and hearing Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges music live on through great musicians like these.

[@mariamkhosh288]

Here after watching Chevalier.

[@RichardJuukovsky]

WOW! What a performance of this work by this violist. Please come to London and do this. Breathtaking stuff. Peace and love

[@ItsBrieW]

Thank you for this recognition. ❤

[@waelder123]

Wonderful performance and I hope that there will be time again to enjoy art and music with friends and all people of good will!

[@marcmaureaux7013]

Œuvre magnifique !

[@Arteshir]

Good job

[@aimjbtnh3]

❤

[@ericpitt-bey3005]

Bravo!!

[@bettywalker6739]

Wonderful showcase of Bologna's music. Sorry to see no person's of color in the whole orchestra.

[@amylivingston4590]

What about that guy in the back of the violin section?

[@fabs8498]

@@amylivingston4590 in european countries black people are minirities. I hoppe that in the future there will be talentuous classical musicians among them. The level is high.

[@buskaidsouthafrica559]

Google Buskaid / Chevalier St G and you will see and hear an entire orchestra of colour playing his music!

[@ILoveRamen444]

Why you should be sorry though? Just enjoy the music.

[@TehKaiser]

This is in Israel...mostly Jewish...

[@r.bookman1472]

Beautifull Guadeloupean Music from Guadeloupe Island 😎

[@28460]

It reminds me a lot of Mozart.

[@christianmoreira5578]

this is not mozart this is chevalier

[@28460]

@@christianmoreira5578 jajaja, I think you don't understand my sentence.

[@eliassarabia7783]

Part Masterpiece of early classicism. And why not call Mozart the white Bologne?

[@Deadbushfan1618]

Because Mozart isn't good enough

[@Vi-ok8of]

Shame that the only reason we didn't know he existed is because he's Black. Racism is a curse. Keep telling his story and the stories of others like him

[@DavidTheRoss]

The only reason you didn't know about him is because you're uneducated

[@hortleberrycircusbround9678]

We don't know who he is cuz heez an average composer.

[@belladonnatook8851]

​@@hortleberrycircusbround9678And you're a below average speller.

[@jorgesantossilva3924]

​@@hortleberrycircusbround9678Mediano mentalmente é você e seu preconceito.

[@lysliepope3967]

Why was this man's music ignored by most white folk?

[@claudemoyen8676]

Color of his skin?

[@tonywaldon7801]

Have to understand the time when all this happen, it wasn't fashionable to admire a black person (mulatto) if you will, in fact using the word mulatto was highly offensive in those days, ashame he was overlooked

[@thelmagray8498]

Back Mozart indeed!!! after listening to his violin concerto ops5

[@agenttheater5]

@@thelmagray8498 I thought he was an established composer and violinist in Paris a few years before Mozart even visited Paris.....

[@agenttheater5]

I've heard rumour that it was because after Napoleon became Emperor of France and ended the Republic (the story I always heard somehow was that he'd as good as crowned himself Emperor) he reinstated many of the laws about slavery and the rights of "people of colour" that France had had before the revolution and restricted performances and playing of Bologne's music.

[@thelmagray8498]

Black Mozart indeed

[@bartwentink2189]

No, Mozart was the white Saint-George.

[@TheCoastermann]

It is white washing of history, and a misunderstanding of who Mozart was, not to mention a complete cliché to describe Joseph as a Black Mozart. Mozart was largely unappreciated in his lifetime, and his fame developed after his death. That cannot be said of Chevalier, who was largely forgotten and who has only in the last decade has gained any attention from classical institutes. If he was a Mozart, then there would be just as many performances of his music and books on Chevalier, but there isn’t. Where is his Marriage of Figaro, or 40th Symphony? Mozarts music was so good that it had to be heard, and I regret that all composers who are lost history are lost because their music simply was not worth the preservation. He was a mixed race composer, who was until recently was forgotten and has been revived with the push of classical performers to diversify their programming. That isn’t to say he is a bad composer; far from it, just listen to the concerto from this video, but he is a far-cry from Mozart.

[@shophar]

Actually Mozart was younger then George and had taken a lot of his Melodic ideas and incorporated them into his concertos for example min 5:23-5:26 scaling up to the high note then immediately dropping down to the lower end of the violin belongs to Maestro St George👍🏾.

[@bartwentink2189]

@TheCoastermann Saint-George's music was not lost because "it was not worth the preservation," but because it was actively suppressed during the first empire. Mozart himself acknowledged Saint-George's greatness and his influence on him by quoting this concerto in his Sinfonia Concertante, which was written just after Mozart was forced to leave Paris due to his mother's failing health, cutting short his collaboration with Saint-George. It is estimated that up to 75% of his works were lost during the 1st Empire.

[@bartwentink2189]

@@shophar Mozart quoted the passage you refer to in his Sinfonia Concertante as a tribute to his influence.