Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, should have been as famous as Mozart — except he wasn’t. Stephen Williams’ new film “Chevalier” starring Kelvin Ha…
as the titular violinist explores why. From Searchlight Pictures, the film opens in theaters on April 21 and follows Chevalier, a name bestowed on him after he caught the attention of Marie Antoinette, the illegitimate son of an African slave and plantation owner. Before bursting onto the scene, he performed violin concertos while building his fencing skills, becoming known as the “Black Mozart.
For the film’s opening scene that introduces the talents of Bologne to the French upper class, Abels explains that when writing this piece, he had to begin with Mozart’s “Violin Concerto No. Five” because that’s what the character is asked to play. “But he shows up and outplays him,” Abels says of the scene. “It was important to write in the style of Joseph, which was classical, but also showy.”
The music was reflective of what audiences would expect to hear in that situation, which danced between classical and modern.
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