HAYDN + SAINT-GEORGES May 23 + 25, 2021 PROGRAM NOTES HAYDN + UNIQUELY THEIR OWN
HAYDN + SAINT-GEORGES May 23 + 25, 2021 PROGRAM NOTES HAYDN + UNIQUELY THEIR OWN SAINT-GEORGES Both works on today’s program, Saint-Georges’ Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 2, No. 1 and Haydn’s Symphony No. 43, are being performed by H+H for the first May 23 + 25, 2021 Streamed Online time, almost 250 years after these works were premiered. The musical language Symphony Hall 2,532nd Concert of each piece is rooted in the latter part of the 18th century, yet each composition bears the unmistakable sound of its composer. PERFORMERS Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 2, No. 1 Emily Marvosh, host The first time Joseph Bologne went to France, Aisslinn Nosky, director and violin he was only two years old. Born in Guadeloupe, Ian Watson, conductor Joseph and his enslaved mother, Nanon, were H+H Orchestra threatened with being sold because George Bologne, his father, a plantation owner, was accused of a murder he did not commit. The PROGRAM three returned to Guadeloupe in 1749, after George received a full pardon. Mini-documentary Part 1: “The most accomplished man in Europe” In the 1750s, Saint-Georges and his parents from Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1 Joseph Bologne, returned to France, where his father’s rise Allegro Chevalier de Saint-Georges to the nobility secured Joseph more (1745-1799) opportunities. Joseph studied with the Aisslinn Nosky, violin fencing master La Boëssière, and established his reputation when, as a student, he defeated Mini-documentary Part 2: Bologne and Haydn Engraving by William Ward after another fencing master who had called him “La Mather Brown, 1787.
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