Wassenaer - Concerto "Armonici" No. 5 in F Minor
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- WILHELM VAN WASSENAER (1692-1766)
Concerto "armonici" No. 5 for strings and basso continuo in F minor
1. Adagio - largo
2. Da capella
3. Con sordino
4. A tempo giusto
Performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Ton Koopman
*Unico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, was a Dutch diplomat and composer.
His most important surviving compositions are the Concerti Armonici, which until recently have been misattributed to the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736).
Unico Willem Van Wassenaer was born into a distinguished family of wealth, power and accomplishment, the house of Wassenaer. He studied law and other courses in Leiden and in 1723 married Dodonea Lucia van Goslinga (the daughter of Sicco van Goslinga), who gave him three children. Van Wassenaer occupied high diplomatic, military and commercial posts. It is known that he was respected not only as a diplomat but also as a musician.
Between 1725 and 1740 he wrote the Concerti Armonici, but being a nobleman he did not want to publish them in his own name (or because he doubted his ability as a composer). The concertos were published in 1740 by the Italian violin player Carlo Ricciotti (16811756), to whom the concertos were attributed at first. Van Wassenaer has therefore been called "the mystery composer."
The Polish composer Franciszek Lessel (17801838) asserted incorrectly that the concertos were written by Pergolesi. Since the style of the concertos is Italian, laid out in typical Roman fashion with four parts for violin and consisting of four parts instead of the Venetian three, they are comparable to works by Pietro Locatelli.
However, in 1979-80 a manuscript of the six concerti was found in the archives of Twickel Castle (the castle where Van Wassenaer was born), labelled 'Concerti Armonici'. Although the handwriting was not by Van Wassenaer, the manuscript did have an introduction in his hand, reading: "Partition de mes concerts gravez par le Sr. Ricciotti". Because of the research done by the Dutch musicologist Albert Dunning, there can be no doubt that the concerti were written by Van Wassenaer.
Concerti Armonici were among the works that formed the basis for Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella, based on works considered at the time to be by Pergolesi.
Apart from Concerti Armonici, three sonatas for recorder and continuo have been discovered in the early 1990s.
so cool to come across OTHER names besides the famous great ones. this truly is great, even though it reminds one of many others. alas, even those great OTHERS weren't necessarily original BUT did gain glory even if deserved. many talents in the world, and many more unknown, and will remain thus. excellent find, this one!
Magnifique musique, merci
Beautiful melody - superb composition and also so expertly executed I thought.
Also so very nice to be able to read details about this work being re-discovered.
Thank you very much for these additional notes ! Very educational too ! Many thanks!!!
A wonderful little piece, in my view the best of the set of six, although they are all very nice to listen to. The final movement fugue is a masterpiece. These pieces, once thought to be by Pergolesi, deserve to be much better known.
Thanks Harmonico!!!! I first had this piece some 20 years ago when I was 15 ( it was attributed to Wassenaer) and loved it! So glad you posted this! Thanks!
It is nicely composed. I just bought the cd of this Dutch greatness.
Tranquila como una linda tarde que en arreboles pinta de rojo el espacio .
Poor Pergolesi!... he just keeps losing attributions left and right! This is a really wonderful upload. Thank you. BRIAN
@damdarch
I agree that he uses pedal points a lot, but to me, that's one of the joys of music of that period. It works very well with the instrumentation with its heavier than average bass
A linha melódica é desenvolvida como uma fala, um reiteramento, um "concerto harmônico".
The 1st G Major concerto is my favourite in this set, and one of the B-flats too. I like Wassenaer, but I find he tends to use pedal points a lot (if you look at the Concerto Armonici as a whole).
Which of these concertos contains the opening theme of Stravinsky's Pulcinella? I'm kind of itching to hear it.
yes :)
Wonderful music! Actually, that looks to me like a hooded falcon (trained for hunting fowl), in the background. So probably the pigeon was "brought down" by the falcon, ie killed by it. For the time of the music that would be an entirely appropriate picture. Noblemen of the eighteenth century were more than often than not practitioners of falconry.
I never said I wasn't a hypocrite, though why did you assume I was a meat eater?
And that painting is kinda greusome. That bird probably had its throat slit and was allowed to bleed to death while it hung there.