For a complete listing of the works of the Chevalier de St. Georges  
(knighted by Louis XV), see the appendix in Gabriel Banat's recent biography,  'Sword 
and Bow'. He was simultaneous the fencing champion of France as well as  the 
leading violinist and composer in the later 18th century. Initially he fell  
afoul of the Revolution but was later the victorious general of a Revolutionary  
army. He was born on Guadeloupe of a wealthy French landowner father and an  
African slave mother. His Christian name was Joseph Boulogne. He wrote many  
violin sonatas, concertos, concerti concertanti, , symphonies, 12 operas (1  
survives), and songs, and commissioned and conducted the Haydn 'Paris'  
symphonies with his Parisian orchestra. The CBC has issued a docudrama DVD on  him 
with excellent performances by the Tafelmusik Orchestra of Montreal.
 
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