trebaolofarabia:siddharthasmama:wr-th:This is what Mozart actually looks like. The image was found i
trebaolofarabia:siddharthasmama:wr-th:This is what Mozart actually looks like. The image was found in a radio station in Belgium. Fact - the Moors (Black people) brought Classical Music to Europe.You’re welcome.Not only that but when you read the REAL bios of him, he’s described as having brown skin, “negroid features” (broad, wide nose, etc) and wiry hair. There was a post going around back in February that was very enlightening.Okay….not to rain on anyone’s parade…but, Mozart was a white guy. The photo is literally a photo shop for a Jazz station. Mozart’s mother and father were…Leopold Mozart…and Anna Marie Mozart…So…yeah…However, I think who everyone may be thinking of…or not thinking of, since it feels like no one has heard of him is “The Black Mozart” The Chevalier de Saint-George, Joseph Bologne…Born Christmas day, 1745, in Guadeloupe he went to academy in Paris, and was an accomplished fencer. By accomplished fencer I mean that when a fencing master called him an ‘upstart mulatto’ he beat him…in fencing, and his dad got him a horse and buggy for being so bad ass.In 1766 the famed Italian fencer Giuseppe Faldoni challenged Joseph to a duel, which Joseph refused because apparently Italian fencing styles were too flamboyant for him. Well…Giuseppe refused to take no for an answer and eventually got Joseph to fight him, Giuseppe won, but then immediately wrote an obsessively excited letter to his father declaring Joseph the greatest swordsman in Europe.During this time he had also become an accomplished violinist, and composer, and eventually the head of the largest orchestra in the world the Concert de la Loge Olympique. He nearly became the director of Opera for Louis XVI, except three divas wrote the queen demanding they not hire him because they would never perform under a ‘mulatto.’ Louis had then attempted to spare Joseph the embarrassment by making it so the leader of Opera could only be promoted from within the Opera itself.With his music career stalled he returned to fencing, where he engaged in an exhibition match against the Cehvalier d’Eon, Frances incredibly famous transgender spy/diplomat/soldier.Sadly the revolution was unkind to him, with the loss of the aristocracy he lost much of his patronage and spent the remainder of his life conducting, but in relative obscurity, being all but forgotten now. He died in 1799. -- source link
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