Violin virtuoso, renowned it “one of the bigger of Europe”, fine blade, brilliant and gallant man, the personality of Joseph of Holy Bologne georges (1745-1799), son of a slave of the Guadeloupe and of a sugar white owner, does not lack to intrigue aujourd’hui again.  Number of biographers looked into his case.  Rock Bardin, the present author delivers, searched very archives often unknown.  His work unveils so far unpublished aspects of the co-founder of the concert of the amateurs, under Louis XV policeman of the guard of the king, doubtless freemason then officer of the national guard, afterward loaded by the Convention to form a legion composed from Black, of which it became the colonel when she was transformed in regiment of hunters to horse. 

The author repositionne Holy georges in the Parisian environment of the people of color to the XVIIIe century.  Itself it recalls to his turn the good feminine fortunes of the young man, that were, for most of the columnists, principal trump of his fame, it in underlines especially triteness:  “When one does 1.80 m and that one is childlike beautiful, one attracts necessarily the most beautiful women.”  The knight made use of his charm, of course, but what returned it maybe even more irresistible and exceptional left it that took the complexity of his musical education and of his game, one compared to the one of Mozart (which is normal but excessive).  How not to attempt to quantify the unknown party, bequeathed by his maternal alignment and that carries in she deeply anchored mysterious and unknown Africa? 

But, will one say, how a hybrid one could it frequent the parlors of the good metropolitan corporation, even though the slavery beat his full one to the colonies?  Bardin shows that, tenured of a load of general inspector of the ordinary one wars, Holy georges evolves in the royal administration.  This privilege awards for him automatically it entitles horseman, then of knight.  The young hybrid one, been born of a liberal and nourished father of ideas voltairiennes in a native family of Holland - and not of Italy as one a long time did it to believe -, is thus legitimized officially by Louis XV.  The work is dense and book an infinity of details.  Too, sometimes, for the reader that stretched to untangle the mixed-up sons that the relate to the mythical knight. 

A page of a handwritten score of the one of the first major works of Mozart was sold Tuesday to the bids for near of 111,000 books (156.047 Euros), surpassing the high fork of his estimation, indicated a spokesperson of the house Sotheby’s. 

It is a matter of the one of the two handwritten pages again existing of the score of the Symphony planning for violin, alto and orchestra in mi damper major composite by the prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1779.  It was 23 years old. 

This page was estimated between 70,000 and 100,000 books (98.000 to 140,000 Euros).  It finally was sold for 110,900 books (156.047 Euros), beating the record for a page of the Austrian genius, announced Sotheby’s, recalling that this symphony had propelled Mozart to the row of the biggest composers. 

It was bought by the of London antique dealer Maggs brothers for the account of a private buyer, underlined the bid house. 

The preceding record for a manuscript of Mozart was held by a leaf carrying its grades for the opening of the Rondo K386 in the major one for piano with orchestra, sold in 1998 with Sotheby’s for 89,500 books. 

If it presents a symphony score planning on the recto, the sold page Tuesday presents to the back of the elements of scores — always feather of Mozart — for horns belonging to two non identified compositions so far. 

“This is the most important unique page of apparent Mozart on the market since decades”, underlined Simon Maguire, person in charge of the department music of Sotheby’s. 

“The + Sinfonia planning + was the true first masterpiece of Mozart: with Bach and Beethoven, it is the one of the three bigger composers of all the times, and this is with this work that the young man of 23 years attained this level for the first time”, it specified. 

The original manuscript of the symphony was misled put to leaves two pages containing two rhythms, that usually were not put to bed on a score but improvised.  What adds to the exceptional character of these documents. 

The page sold Tuesday never had been seen by the public, or accessible summer to the researchers. 

 - Chronic- The collection “Sources”, published to the PUF, proposes the faxes of the old books of Swiss foundation Martin Bodmer.

 - Discover in pictures the four first appeared works. 

Despite the numerical revolution and the time passage, old books and precious manuscripts continue to exercise a fascination with the curious spirits.  Foundation Martin Bodmer, in Switzerland, meets in its rays and windows someone of the most fabulous never written documents:  Gospels, original of Proust, rare editions of Shakespeare and even a signed score Mozart. 

A treasure of the Humanity that swiss foundation and the University Presses of France (PUF) decided to reproduce faithfully in the form of a faxes.  Within this Collection Sources, every work behaves the text and the era illustrations, presented in the respect of the original edition.  A preface “modern”, composed by a specialist, allows replacing the work and his author in his context and of some to underline the reach.

• Anderson, Emily (1938) The Letters of Mozart and His Family. Currently in print with Palgrave Macmillan (1989)
• Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography. English translation by Eric Blom, Peter Branscombe, and Jeremy Noble. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. This work contains English translations of all of the documents cited above.
• Solomon, Maynard (1996) Mozart: A Life. Harper Perennial. ISBN 0060926929