Search

Before There Was Mozart

author: Cline-ransome, Lesa
Chronicles the life and musical accomplishments of Joseph Boulogne, an African man and the son of a slave who came to eighteenth-century France to study music, describing the hardships he faced and treatment by his peers, and discussing the realization of his dream to perform in front of the king and queen.
920
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1110
subjects: saint-georges, joseph bologne [X], musicians, racially mixed people, nobility, music [X]

Search system copyright © 2010 Genesee Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services