User:Iwamotp/Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Week 4 Edit Draft

From "Musical life and career" section

In 1769, the Parisian public was amazed to see Saint-Georges, the great fencer, playing as a violinist in Gossec's new orchestra, Le Concert des Amateurs. Four years later he became its concertmaster/conductor. In 1772 Saint-Georges created a sensation with his debut as a soloist, playing his first two violin concertos, Op. II, with Gossec conducting the orchestra. "These concertos were performed last winter at a concert of the Amateurs by the author himself, who received great applause as much for their performance as for their composition." According to another source, "The celebrated Saint-Georges, mulatto fencer [and] violinist, created a sensation in Paris ... [when] two years later ... at the Concert Spirituel, he was appreciated not as much for his compositions as for his performances, enrapturing especially the feminine members of his audience."

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In 1773, when Gossec took over the direction of the prestigious Concert Spirituel, he designated Saint-Georges as his successor as director of the Concert des Amateurs. After fewer than two years under the younger man's direction, the group was described as "Performing with great precision and delicate nuances [and] became the best orchestra for symphonies in Paris, and perhaps in all of Europe."

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In 1769, the Parisian public was amazed to see Saint-Georges, the great fencer, playing as a violinist in Gossec's new orchestra, Le Concert des Amateurs. Four years later he became its concertmaster/conductor. In 1772 Saint-Georges created a sensation with his debut debuted as a soloist for the Concert des Amateurs, playing the first two violin concertos of his own composition, Op. II, with Gossec conducting the orchestra. "These concertos were performed last winter at a concert of the Amateurs by the author himself, who received great applause as much for their performance as for their composition." According to another source, "The celebrated Saint-Georges, mulatto fencer [and] violinist, created a sensation in Paris ... [when] two years later ... at the Concert Spirituel, he was The concertos garnered a highly positive reception, and Saint-Georges in particular was said to be "appreciated not as much for his compositions as for his performances, enrapturing especially the feminine members of his audience."[add citation to Mercure de France]

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In 1773, when Gossec took over the direction of the prestigious Concert Spirituel, he designated Saint-Georges as his successor as as the new conductor and concertmaster of the Concert des Amateurs. [add citation to Banat 2006]. After fewer than two years under the younger man's direction, the group was described by Jean-Benjamin La Borde as "Pperforming with great precision and delicate nuances", and that it had become [and] became "the best orchestra for symphonies in Paris, and perhaps in all of Europe."[add citation to La Borde]

Final edit draft

In 1769, the Parisian public was amazed to see Saint-Georges, the great fencer, playing as a violinist in Gossec's new orchestra, Le Concert des Amateurs. In 1772 Saint-Georges debuted as a soloist for the Concert des Amateurs, playing the first two violin concertos of his own composition, Op. II, with Gossec conducting the orchestra. The concertos garnered a highly positive reception, and Saint-Georges in particular was said to be "appreciated not as much for his compositions as for his performances, enrapturing especially the feminine members of his audience."[add citation to Mercure de France]

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In 1773, when Gossec took over the direction of the prestigious Concert Spirituel, he designated Saint-Georges as the new conductor and concertmaster of the Concert des Amateurs. [add citation to Banat 2006]. After fewer than two years under the younger man's direction, the group was described by Jean-Benjamin La Borde as "performing with great precision and delicate nuances," and that it had become "the best orchestra for symphonies in Paris, and perhaps in all of Europe."[add citation to La Borde]

Weeks 6-7 Edit Drafts (as of 4/28/23)

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"In 1769 he joined a new symphony orchestra, Le Concert des Amateurs, consisting of amateurs and professionals, and founded by Gossec. By 1771, Saint-Georges had been appointed the orchestra's concertmaster and had started composing his own music. Later in 1773, he succeeded Gossec as the orchestra's conductor. [added citation to Banat 2006] [paragraph break]

In 1776, Saint-Georges was proposed as the next conductor of the Paris Opera but was subsequently denied this role because he was a person of colour. Around this time, his work as a composer began to focus primarily on the creation of operas. [removed paragraph break] After Le Concert des Amateurs disbanded in 1781, he joined a new orchestra formed by a masonic lodge that was called Le Concert de la Loge Olympique. By 1785, he had stopped composing instrumental works altogether in 1784. [added citations to Banat 2006] [paragraph break]"

"Musical life and career" section

"Saint-Georges's first composition Op. I, probably composed in 1770 or 1771, was a set of six string quartets, among the first in France, published by famed French publisher, composer, and teacher Antoine Bailleux. He was inspired by Haydn's earliest quartets, brought from Vienna by Baron Bagge. Also in 1770, Carl Stamitz dedicated his own set of six string quartets to Saint-Georges. By 1771, Gossec had appointed Saint-Georges as the concertmaster of the Concert des Amateurs. [added citation to Banat 2006]

In 1772, Saint-Georges debuted as a soloist for the Concert des Amateurs. [added citation to Banat 2006] He played the first two violin concertos of his own composition, Op. II, with Gossec conducting the orchestra. The concertos garnered a highly positive reception, and Saint-Georges in particular was said to be "appreciated not as much for his compositions as for his performances, enrapturing especially the feminine members of his audience."

In 1773, when Gossec took over the direction of the prestigious Concert Spirituel, he designated Saint-Georges as the new conductor and concertmaster of the Concert des Amateurs. After fewer than two years under the younger man's direction, the group was described by Jean-Benjamin La Borde as "performing with great precision and delicate nuances", and that it had become "the best orchestra for symphonies in Paris, and perhaps in all of Europe." Other composers who dedicated works to Saint-Georges were Carl Stamitz in 1770, Saint-Georges was chosen as the dedicatee of another composition in 1778, this time for the unknown violinist Giovanni Avoglio's set of string quartets, Op. 6 in 1778."

"Operas" section

"Saint-Georges's most successful opéra comique was [L'Amant Anonyme new wikilink added], which was premiered in 1780...

...But, over the next two years, he published two more violin concertos and a pair of his Symphonies concertantes. [citation added by me] Thereafter, except for his final set of quartets (Op. 14, 1785), Saint-Georges abandoned composing instrumental music in favor of opera. [added citation]"