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Keywords: roman épistolaire, Mlle Poulain de Nogent, écriture des femmes, amitié, monophonie
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In this commentary, I briefly consider, for context, a number of short films focused on the Chevalier Saint-George and films in which the figure of the Chevalier has appeared, before focusing on the 2023 feature-length biopic, Chevalier, directed by Steven Williams. These reflections are focused on the continuities between period piece films, biographical films and adaptations. A term borrowed from French poetics, "ineffacement," helps us to consider the film artist's double duties to their own artistic license and personal engagements, on the one hand, and on their various epistemological and ethical obligations to the historical source material on the other. Chevalier does not succeed as a film in part because it fails to present viewers with the dilemmas of such balancing or to show much evidence of having even considered them. The film does show the renewal of interest in the figure of the Chevalier and promises more attempts to do justice to this inspiring historical character.
Keywords: Chevalier de Saint-George, Chevalier de Saint-George, biographie filmée, Cinematic biography, poethics, poéthique, ineffacement, ineffacement, histoire, history
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From a violin history perspective, our understanding of Saint-Georges’ career is unfortunately limited by incomplete and scattered information. In this article, I explore three main questions related to Saint-Georges, two of which are hypothetical. First, I question whether a Rondeau by Saint-Georges could be connected to contemporary Caribbean contradance music. Second, I consider whether Saint-Georges’ prolonged absence from the repertoire can be attributed to his relative position within the French Violin School. Finally, after noticing similar-sounding passages in Saint-George’s symphonies concertantes from 1778-1779 and Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat (K. 364) of 1779, I wonder whether Mozart drew inspiration from Saint-Georges’ music—and, if so, how he could have adapted it for his own purposes
Keywords: Joseph Bologne de Saint-George, école française de violon, musical life in Paris (1760-1800), symphonie concertante, musique des Caraïbes, French Violin School, symphonie concertante, Joseph Bologne de Saint-George, vie musicale à Paris (1760-1880), Caribbean music
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