José Silvestre White’s Violin Concerto in f sharp minor
This February, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates Black composers and musicians whose music has been suppressed and ignored. All of these musicians should be added to the music history and music theory curriculum. https://youtu.be/3Zw-7AJ0MbQ https://youtu.be/eOyis867p24 https://youtu.be/pLiNMe8gIGM José Silvestre de Los Dolores White y Lafitte (1836–1918), most usually known as either José Silvestre White or Joseph White, was born in Cuba and received his early musical instruction from his father, who was an amateur violinist. Josephine Wright says of his first public concert in Cuba at the age of 18, “His accompanist was the famous North American pianist-composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk . . . who encouraged him to pursue further violin studies in Paris and raised money for him to travel there.” During White’s time studying at the Paris Conservatoire, he won many awards and came to the attention of Rossini, who wrote to White in 1858: “Allow me to express to you all the pleasur...