Teodorico Pedrini - Concert Baroque à la Cité Interdite

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Teodorico Pedrini (Fermo, 1671 – Peking, 1746)

Sonata I en La majeur (violon et basse continue)
Sonata VIII en Si bémol majeur (flûte et basse continue)
Sonata IV en sol mineur (violoncelle et basse continue)
Sonata X en ut mineur (violon et basse continue)
Sonata V en Sol majeur (flûte et basse continue)


Joseph-Marie Amiot (Toulon, 1718 - Peking, 1793)

Premier divertissement chinois
Deuxième divertissement chinois
Troisième divertissement chinois


Teodorico Pedrini

Teodorico (Frederico) Pedrini was born June 30 1671 and died in Pekin, China in 1746. He was a member of the Congregation of the Mission in Italy. In 1702 he was sent to China by Pope Clement XI to evangelize the son of the Emperor.
Teodorico Pedrini was admitted to the Congregation of the Mission (Lazaristes) in 1698. He was sent to Rome in China by the pope in 1702 to please the emperor, who had hoped to have a few European artists to his court.
After a very circuitous journey of some ten years he arrived in Bejing in 1711.
He was received the same day by Emperor Kangxi, who at once took him under its protection, despite the hostility of some courtiers. He remained until his death in 1746 at the service of the Sons of Heaven: Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong.
He was responsible for the maintenance of harpsichords of the court, built instruments, including a new organ for the Jesuit church of Bei Tang, and another for the emperor. He finished the Treaty of European music commissioned by the emperor Jesuit Tomas Pereira (died 1708), accompanied the emperor on his travels, taught music to his son. (Vincentian Encyclopedia)

Joseph-Marie Amiot

Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the Qianlong Emperor and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing. He was a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences, official translator of Western languages for Emperor Qianlong, and the spiritual leader of the French mission in Peking. He died in Peking in 1793. His Manchu dictionary Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou-français (Paris, 1789) was a work of great value, the language having been previously quite unknown in Europe. His other writings are to be found chiefly in the Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences et les arts des Chinois (15 volumes, Paris, 1776-1791). The Vie de Confucius, the twelfth volume of that collection, was more complete and accurate than any predecessors. (Wikipedia)