Classical composer
Meet Joseph Boulogne, the black classical composer who taught Marie Antoinette how to play the violin
Growing up, the father of Joseph Boulogne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, wanted him to be a French aristocrat. Being a son of a wealthy plantation owner, Georges de Bologne Saint-Georges, and a female slave, Nanon, his father knew that French society would not readily embrace him. Since he was brought to France at an early…
