I'm imagining a mini-series of 8 to 10 episodes featuring him and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. The music, politics, the sword play and the romance. Incroyable!

QUICK CORRECTION, EVERYONE! He was born in modern day Guadeloupe, back when it was a French colony, NOT in Haiti! Looks like I bungled my script-writing and blurred it together with his later campaign there. My thanks to those of you who were kind enough to catch it and let me know!

This is the most accurate and honest depiction of Joseph Boulogne and his achievements, eradicated by racism, I have seen yet. Thank you so much for that. The only thing I will say is that it is not the quantity of work, but quality of work and its impact on the world by influence on those works that follow that makes one great. Jimi Hendrix revered for this very reason with only a few albums made me. Thanks once again.

Thank you so much ... I first leant about the Chevalier 30 yrs ago from scarce sources (J.A. Rogers) - I think you paid him a wonderful homage - what makes me sad, as an Afropean is -that a lot of Black Europeans simply do not care about those before us who contributed so much to European culture ... no matter what obstacles stood in their way ... which is inspiring for everybody who has to fight harder to get his/her talents be acknowledged

Fantastic video! I recently became a fan of Bologne after seeing a movie, Chevalier, on a flight. Since then, I’ve been listening to his music and learning as much about his life as I can. Thank you for putting this out.

When I played classical music in my elementary, middle, and high school courses parents were calling me or visiting the classroom to compliment me because their children and youth were going home to tell them that they live classical jazz. I tried this with my college students. They lived it too. So, classical music is played whenever I’m teaching. Very softly. Very subtly. It helps students to be calm and they finish their assignments. There should be listening corners where students can go, to relax, and enjoy music from many genres. Watch the academic scores go up! Watch diversity in the classroom blossom! Parents will be contacting teachers with compliments, and not complaints. Bring the arts back! Thanks.

Chevalier was also the one who trained the great French (part Haitian) General Thomas Alexandre Dumas in fencing. Chevalier was also the one who got Dumas to join the Black Legion which fought for the French revolution.

1st thing thank you for this. 2nd just imagine this being a movie, couldnt make this shit up ha. Blows my mind how unheard this great man is. Its criminal.

What an incredible man. You seem to be concentrating on his music which is fair but being the best swordsman in all France is an amazing accomplishment itself. And his military career, the same.

One of the worst things done to education in the U.S. is the focus on STEM. Music and the Art programs were gutted (but not sports) thinking that this was the best way forward. Americans have a long history of being suspicious of anything that did not make money, finding that anything that failed to do so was worthless and without merit. And so many many children who would otherwise find purpose and meaning in music and the arts, found failure in STEM and were unable to fulfill their natural inclinations and proclivities.

He was also one of the best swordsman in Europe.Thomas Alexandre Dumas who was the father of Alexandre Dumas trained under him from a very young age.

As someone who is into fencing and music, this is quite interesting.

Mozart is forever "The White Bologne" to me now

Even Hollywood has [deliberately?] overlooked this man: No mention of him in the movie Amadeus - let alone a feature film of this interesting character set against the backdrop of the "age of enlightenment", the French Revolution, and England's abolition of the slave trade!

Thank you for educating us & bringing to light this fantastic composer who rightly should be celebrated more prominently. I’d come across him on my explorations last Fall & fell in love with his music. Such a terrible shame that his legacy has been allowed to gather dust.

Hello. Great video. Thank you for sharing Bologne's story.

I stumbled on him by accident two months ago and looked him up and was fascinated. Beautiful music and amazing life. I just want to thank you for exploring this tremendous person and making this video. I feel in time we will have a great biopic--as well received as Amadeus if it is done well. I will certainly do as you suggest and listen to everything he wrote. Really Thank You.

It’s about time. The music from the Afro-Caribbean and Latin American diaspora is under promoted. This movie, “Chevalier,” should be shown in as many theatres as possible. The story of Joseph Bologne should be taught in schools. Bring music and the arts back to pour public schools. Let all students have the opportunities to engage in these pursuits. Only then will the best and the brightest emerge from the masses. Countries thrive when the best and brightest stars rise to the stop. The issues surrounding legacy students and their legacy wealth means that poor, talented and gifted students often have to scramble for the “scraps from the table of joy,” instead of being assessed on their competencies. Hopefully, as news of Joseph Bologne spread more people will be inspired to help children and youth gain recognition. One can only hope.

Thank you for being So BRAVE as to let the TRUTH be Known. ❤

Wow thank you , also have you read Black Count by Tom Reiss. Great and interesting .

Great lesson in music history. I had never heard of Bologne Chevalier’s (sp?) music and his influence on Mozart before. We will listen and watch more.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THE TRUTH.

Thank you soooo much for posting this.................

22 minutes of straight facts. Can definitely hear how Mozart “the white bologne” bit from the goat Joseph. Hope he can get more recognition he deserves. 10/10 based video

Nearly brought a tear to my eye this. Why are black forever being oppressed and tucked away from history.what is the fear?

I am not at all surprised by the information in this video. How can anything be much more violently oppressive than to relegate to shadows and footnotes an obviously radiant genius and a seemingly overachiever at that. This certainly substantiates the preeminence of black musical talent, except racism is a preeminently evil beast. So very happy to learn about Joseph Bologne; especially to know that black folk have very long been at the forefront of most all artistic and intellectual advances and beatific expressions. The Genius who also taught Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! PWG

Movie coming 2023! Cannot wait. Without a doubt a pure genius if not the GENIUS! Hence why Napoleon forbid his music to be played. Victim of little man syndrome.

Thanks for the fantastic overview of a genius in so many areas.

Excellent video! Thank you so much

'The White Bologne' works for me, truth, historic. Incredible!

Let’s return the arts to our schools! I’m inspired!

Great job on this entire video! I enjoyed your research and I appreciated your honesty.

Thanks for this great video. Bologne been on my radar since meeting the Harlem Chamber players a few years ago.

Great video and thanks for talking about such an important and under appreciated historical figure. The only small critique I have is that he was born in Guadeloupe and not Haiti

You've explained this biography quite well indeed, no doubt. Thanks a million, Sir Theodore Cheek.

Thank you for this. Xoxo

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Love this. The best video on him

Thank you so much for this video. I found your video months ago when I was looking for black composers. Tonight I’m going to the premiere of a new film about the Chevalier. Please keep up the great work. And thank you so much again.

well done my friend .

Thanks 🙏🏽 for sharing ☺️

Great presentation, thanks for your astute exploration

Loved the cat making an appearance.😸😻

Thanks, Formidable story.

I agree, how history has been shaped by bias or ignorance is truly a sham, when I was a kid in school I had some questions about things that I was taught in school but I didn’t ever really guestion my teacher s on these things it’s truly a shame that so many things have been changed I suppose many nations have changed their history to make them self look better but if people new the actual truth perhaps they will be different in the way that they interact with each others maybe not!but it would be good to know the truth about some things instead the lies that are spred

Amazing video ,also Calypso is a real beauty

Well all I can say is Thank you for all info blessed

THANK YOU

Truly Awesome......................

People would rather pretend that Beethoven was black instead of actually talking more about real black classical composers

There is now a movie, Chevalier, about Saint Georges that is excellent.

This was fascinating. Thank you SO much. I can't wait to see the film coming out very soon. I'm thinking the Florida schools won't be adding him to their history lessons, tho...

It doesn't seem his father was a "douche-bag." He put him through the best school and took his black mistress with him to France and gave his son his name. That was something unheard of. Didn't he?

I Thank You for your Bravery AND Honesty concerning This Story. Nomatter What Race, ALL PEOPLE HAVE DEADBEATS.

Awesome Indeed.....................

quite thorough

I'm not sure why you say that his dad was a jerk for shipping him off to France for an amazing education. If not for his father's support he definitely wouldn't have tapped into any of those hidden talents. I had a lot of interests as a teen, but never had the resources to explore them..

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Did I hear Haiti? He was born in Guadalupe if I'm correct

They’re making a movie based on him coming out next year

Thank you for sharing. Well done! His music is like fine wine. Hm. Did Mozart “borrow” from Bologne?

What is that illustration with the pyramid about??

The movie is coming in 2023

You're right about opera being racist (though they are now 'letting' a few black males perform more). This man was as good as Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren, both of whom by the way came backstage to congratulate him at his Metropolitan Opera debut ................. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdaUmMun2tuwlWQ.html. My first teacher in New York, who was black himself and had his own opera company, during a discussion told me that some of the most hostile white males were the ones in classical music! I found this to ring quite true in my own experience! In fact when Schyler Chapin American manager of the Metropolitan Opera during the seventies in New York sought to engage my first teacher and another black male singer as principle artists at the MET, his contract which was up for renewal was not renewed and those debuts never happened. Talk about sick minds. And these people pretend to be cultured in the so-called 'modern' world!

Are there letters from Mozart (he wrote many) indicating JBLCSG's influence or admiration for his music?

Alexander Picard:A relative of Jean Luc Picard

Is his music published (and performed) in the USA?

I don't speak French but I think noire means "black" and I'm sure "code" means "code". Piecing all that together, the "Code Noire" was messed up. I think...

I'm watching this video after having watched the 2023 movie about Bologne. The account in the movie differs somewhat from what is stated here. This guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about I'm kind of suspecting that the writers for the movie made up a lot of stuff.

I like you as a person. You are definitely an ally.

Best swordsman in europe

Not Haiti. He was from "Guadalupe".

Another great classical musiciam of color was this guy, often refered to the greatest violinist of 19th century Europe: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Brindis_de_Salas_Garrido

Is it Haiti or Guadelupe?

Heavenly kingdom rule coming at anytime Now (Matt 24:3,14,42,44)

Bologne led Europe's first all black regiment, with black troops and officers, the Legion De St Georges aka American Legion aka Black Legion. His second in command at the Legion De St Georges, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, is another remarkable black character. Born in what became Haiti to a slave woman and her aristocrat owner, he was educated at fine schools in France, joined the army as a private, rose to General - in - Chief commanding 50,000 troops in the Army of the Alps, then commanding the infantry during Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition. His son, Alexandre Dumas, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Cristo. There was a monument to him in Paris but the Nazis destroyed it when they rolled in. Danny Glover was trying for more than a decade to make a movie about him.

Guadalupe is his birthplace not Haiti as far as I recall…..

From Old French galant (“brave; noble; chivalrous”). So cool, but looking noble or prestine, or highly professional would be moreso my take on the word

Bro believe me when I say that as a non Asian Sushi chef, racism isn’t only alive it’s actually quite rampant. It has little to do with a specific culture or ethnicity. No sadly it’s a Vice of human nature when a person has been erroneously taught and believe that their culture, race or set of beliefs are the best for any given amount of reasons. When those beliefs are openly challenged, thereby causing friction a struggle ensues.

Finally we have a movie about Chevalier! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7Kkdqx60sy3c58.html

You made a mistake he was born in Guadeloupe we are still proud of her brother even though he was not born in Haiti.

Vive Guadeloupe.

BEFORE COMMENTIN ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID, I WISH TO SPECIFY , THAT I WRITE IN UPPER CASE BECAUSE OF MY VERY POOR EYESIGHT AND NOT FOR ANY OTHER REASON! I AM FRENCH AND I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL, THAT 18TH CENTURY FRENCH SOCIETY WAS THE MOST RACIST ONE AMONG ALL EUROPEAN NATIONS, SO NOTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT BOLOGNE'S LIFE SURPRISES ME HERE. HE MUST HAVE SUFFERED A LOT. NOT DOUBT ABOUT THAT! NOW GENIUS IS GENIUS AND HIS HAS NOW WON RECOGNITION IN THE END, IF NOT ALREADY DURING HIS LIFETIME! NOW GALLANT IS ORIGINALLY A FRENCH WORD AND MEANS SEDUCTIVE AND ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO PAYING HOMAGE TO LADIES AS A CHEVALIER (A KNIGHT IN FRENCH) WOULD DO TO A LADY WO THOM HE WOULD THUS EXPRESS HIS LOVE AND ALSO SUBMISSION AND OFFER TO SERVE HER. THIS IS THE ORIGNAL MEANING OF THAT WORD, THAT THEN PASSED INTO ENGLISH. IT ALSO MEANS QUITE LIVELY, EXACTLY AS THE ITALIAN WORD ALLEGRO ALSO USED IN MUSIC. THE GALLANT STYLE WOULD THEN BE A VERY ALLURING, SEDUCTIVE AND PLEASING TO THE EAR, GENERALLY SPEAKING! WE ALSO SAY ''ENLEVÉ'' IN FRENCH. NOW, I AM NOT A MUSICIAN AND OF COURSE YOUR DEFINITION OF GALLANT REMAINS THE RIGHT ONE! I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE WHERE THAT WORD CAME FROM AND WHY! AND HERE FOR THOSE WHO KNOW FRENCH ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GALLANT, ACTUALLY WRITTEN GALANT, WITH ONLY ONE L IN FRENCH, ORIwww.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/galantGINALLY AND WHO WOULD BE INTERESED IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANT AND STILL MEANS SINCE WE STILL SAY IN MODERN FRENCH...ÊTRE GALANT...AS WHEN A TRUE GENTLEMAN ALWAYS HAS THIS ''LADIES FIRTST''' ATTITUDE WITH THEM! AS FOR RACISM TODAY TOWARDS BLACK PERFORMERS IN MUSIC, IT IS ALSO PERFECTLY TRUE AND ONE ONLY HAS TO KNOW THE BIOGRAPHY OF NINA SIMONE TO KNOW HOW MUCH SHE SUFFERED FROM SUCH RACISM IN WHITE AMERICAN SOCIETY AND UNFORTUNATELY RACISM IS STILL VERY MUCH A FACT OF LIFE IN MODERN SOCIETY EVERYWHERE IN WHITE SOCIETY. IT STILL REMAINS A MAIN HURDLE FOR ALL BLACK PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WHERE WHITES ARE THE MAJORITY! I AM WHITE MYSELF, SO I KNOW BECAUSE I KNOW MY OWN RACE AND OUR TERRIBLE PREJUDICES...VERY, VERY SAD!

Perhaps the main culprit as to why Boulogne's music was lost is Napolean. However, as the music industry and academia pride themselves in being such scholars of music history and research, why none of them came across Boulogne is disappointing. Western classical music already has a bad rap of being very racist (the people, not the music). Has it not struck anyone as odd that we went to music school in college and learned only about the music of dead, white male Europeans? White female composers were not even mentioned. I remember a brief mention of Clara Schumann but no other women. It is only fitting that we examine Boulogne more closely as well as any others who may have been swept under the carpet. As for Mozart, there is no desire to take anything from his legacy. The only thing to take are the fallacies purported by academia. The music industry has dubbed certain motifs and musical passages as "Mozartian". But it has become clear some of the motifs and phrases were first penned by Boulogne which Mozart "used". Shall we now use the term "Boulognian"? Not just Boulogne's symphonie concertante in E major where Mozart pirated passages, it seems very possible Mozart was also "inspired" by one of Boulogne's string quartets (from 1771) when writing his Exultate Jubilate in 1773. How many more of Boulogne's works or any other composer's works has Mozart copied?

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He was born in Guadeloupe not Haiti

Mozart was almost unknown in france in 1778 when he came to Paris.Comparing St george to Mozart is rediculous .Mozart knever met St george as all Mozart biographies proove. In paris St george was famousin 1778 ; Mozart stayed 6 months in paris and was played 1 time;falls historiends

17th century died 1799

The country of Guadeloupe is a island in the Caribbean. It is NOT present day Haiti!

His life is extremely interesting and I enjoy his music. It should be said, though, that Gossec, Vanhal, Salieri, Rosetti etc. are also largely forgotten today. The big orchestras are also mostly giving up on Haydn even. So I think this goes beyond whitewashing.

But, HEY, history is "HIS"-story; and why would you expect anyone to devote any money to telling the story of one they can never identify with - let alone cast him as a hero!

He was a mixed race man not black!

He was born in Guadeloupe not Haiti