The Moor Chevalier Part 1 (Webinar) (Special Edition)

The Chevalier Was NOT a Black Mozart...Mozart was a White Chevalier.

The Chevalier Is Too Often Forgotten Today

• It was not Saint-Georges who was the most influential musician in Europe, not Mozart and Haydn. Joel-Marie Fauget says.
• “Aside from the impropriety of describing a musician in racial terms, to call Saint-Georges a “black Mozart” or a “black Haydn” betrays an ignorance both of French music and of Haydn and Mozart.

• “In order to establish the truth, it must be stated that Saint-Georges remains,, one of the principal

exponents of the French style of the sinfonia concertante and the violin concerto, and it was on the contrary Mozart, with his extraordinary genius for integrating new ideas, who introduced the quintessence of what he learned from the Parisian violinists influenced by the Chevalier and the Mannheim school, into his own violin concertos.

• The circumstances were those of his second visit to Paris in 1788.