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French musician
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Baroque in the Forbidden City
[…] would later prevail. Theree are plenty of books on the Jesuits in China, but much of the music they brought to and from, and made themselves, is not well documented. Some manuscripts were hidden after the suppression of the order, not only in China but in Europe.The best known recording is the Messe des Jesuites de Pekin, which recreates scores published in France between 1636 and 1661, recorded by Auvidis Astrée, with music by Joseph-Marie Amiot, Charles d'Ambleville, Simon Boyleau, and Téodorico Pédrini, some of the Jesuit musicians active in Beijing before that time. The performers are Ensemble Meihua Fleur de Prunus and the choir of the Centre Catholique Chinois de Paris, directed by Francois Pichard, and XVIII-21 Musique des Lumieres directed by Jean-Christoph Frisch. Western baroque meets Chinese orchestration. These are liturgical works adapted for Chinese circumstances and Chinese musicians, presumably parishioners rather than professionals. Some sound like […]
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