The “Black Mozart” Who Was So Good, Mozart Made Him His Nemesis
Black History Year
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🗓️ 3 November 2023
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When 6 Strings Quartet dropped in 1773, the French aristocracy went wild for it. A well loved, respected and talented member of the upper echelon had just reinvented violin concertos. So why isn’t his name listed in the hallowed halls of music?
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| 0:00.0 | When Six Stream's Quartet dropped in 1773, the French aristocracy went wild for it. |
| 0:09.0 | A well-love, respected, and talented member of the Upper Echelon had just reinvented violin concertos. |
| 0:16.0 | So why isn't his name listed in the hall of music? |
| 0:19.8 | This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:21.9 | What you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:24.0 | Funny how they can easily pronounce Chikovsky, but have difficulty with black names. |
| 0:35.2 | And when it came to Joseph Beloney de St. George's, they tried to bury it and not pronounce it at all. |
| 0:46.3 | Born of an enslaved Guadalupe woman and her plantation owner, St. George's grew up with great privileges. He was educated at |
| 0:51.8 | prominent schools in France and was a master fenced. |
| 0:55.0 | St. Georgians had earned the title of Chevalier when he became one of the first black |
| 1:01.7 | colonels in France's history and led Europe's first all black army. |
| 1:06.5 | It isn't known when he began studying music, but he was an accomplished violinist and wrote countless concertos, symphonies, operas, and sonatif. |
| 1:17.0 | St Georgis would go on to meet several prominent orchestras and was even employed by Marie Antoinette. He was so prolific that a little |
| 1:27.1 | known musician copied his style at the time. That musician was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
| 1:39.0 | Joseph Blona, who was |
| 1:44.4 | regulated to the shadow. |
| 1:46.4 | White musical historians tried to bury his talents and |
| 1:49.9 | accomplishments, but the truth always comes out. |
| 1:54.3 | Don't believe their lies. |
| 1:57.4 | In order to move towards the future, |
| 1:59.2 | you've got to look to the past. |
| 2:01.4 | This has been too many Black history, a podcast by Push Black. If you enjoyed this |
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