by Signor Ricciotti. These concertos were composed at different times between 1725 and 1740. When they were ready, I took them along to the musical gathering organized in The Hague by Mr Bentinck, myself and some foreign gentlemen. Ricciotti played the first violin. Afterwards I allowed him to make a copy of the concertos. When all six were ready, he asked permission to have them engraved. Upon my refusal he enlisted the aid of Mr Bentinck, to whose strong representations I finally acquiesced, on condition that my name did not appear anywhere on the copy and that he put his name to it, as he did. Mr Bentinck wanted to dedicate them to me; I refused absolutely, after which he told Ricciotti to dedicate them to him. In this way these concertos were published against my wishes. Some of them are tolerable, some middling, others wretched. Had they not been published, I would perhaps have corrected the mistakes in them, but other business has left me no leisure to amuse myself with them, and I would have caused their editor offence." Concerto Armonico No. 2 in B flat Major (Allegro moderato) was among the works that formed the basis for Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Tarantella, based on works considered at the time to be by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Apart from Concerti Armonici, three sonatas for recorder and continuo were also discovered in the early 1990s. References Citations Sources Sources Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692–1766). A master unmasked, or the Pergolesi-Ricciotti puzzle solved. By Albert Dunning. Tr. by Joan Rimmer. Frits Knuf, 1980. External links Unico Willem van Wassenaer: the mystery composer Six Concerti Armonici (Sei concerti armonici), published by Carlo Bacciccia Ricciotti, The Hague, 1740. Performed by The Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra People from Hof van Twente Counts of the Netherlands Dutch male classical composers Dutch classical composers Dutch Baroque composers 18th-century Dutch diplomats Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer 1692 births 1766 deaths Teutonic Knights 18th-century classical composers 18th-century male musicians