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Van Wassenaer studied law and other courses in Leiden . In 1723 he married Dodnea Lucia van Goslinga, who gave him three children. 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 '' Concerto s'' were published in 1740 by the Italian violin player Carlo Ricciotti ( 1681 – 1756 ), to whom the concertos would be attributed at first. According to the Polish composer François Lessel ( 1780 ?– 1835 ), 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 Giovanni Mossi or Pietro Locatelli . However, in 1979 a manuscript of the six ''concerti'' was found in the archives of (''A Master Unmasked'', Utrecht, 1980) there can be no doubt that the ''concerti'' were written by Van Wassenaer. |