Op. 3, No. 1; Op. 8, No. 9
Bernard Thomas Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Violin
Arion 68093 (1990)
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) was an Afro-French composer, violinist and conductor as well as France's best fencer and Colonel of a Black Legion in the French Revolution.
His biography can be found at
http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Page1.html
Saint-Georges was born on a Caribbean plantation where his mother was a slave owned by his father. His aristocratic education at a fencing academy in France led him to become a champion fencer as a young man. He soon began playing the violin. Before long he was a concert master, and he began composing.
Many CDs of his music have been recorded, mainly in Europe but also in the United States and Canada. A DVD of the life of Saint-Georges has been produced in Canada.
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