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dimecres, 20 d’agost del 2025

VAN WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm (1692-1766) - Concertino a quattro violini obligati (1740)

Anonymous (17th Century) - The Paston Treasure (c.1670)


Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) - Concertino (V, f-moll) des 'VI Concerti armonici a quattro violini obligati, alto viola, violoncello obligato e basso continuo' (1740)
Performers: Barocco Boreale ensemble

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Dutch composer and statesman. He was born into one of the oldest and most influential families of the Dutch nobility and spent his childhood in his parents' house in The Hague and at Twickel Castle in Delden. He probably studied music with the organist, harpsichordist, composer and theorist Quirinus van Blankenburg in The Hague. In 1707-09 he stayed with his father and three sisters in Düsseldorf at the court of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. The strong Italian influences at the court had a major influence on his musical development. On 18 September 1710 Unico Wilhelm was admitted to the University of Leiden to study law. In December 1711 he interrupted his studies to go to Frankfurt for the coronation of the Emperor Charles VI. In June 1713, after completing his studies, he returned to Düsseldorf where his father and sisters had settled. He may have accompanied Arent van Wassenaer Duyvenvoorde on a visit to Britain in 1715-16. He made a grand tour of France and Italy in 1717-18. In 1723 Unico Wilhelm married Dodonea Lucia van Goslinga (the daughter of Sicco van Goslinga), with whom he had three children. While based at the Hague between 1725 and 1740, Unico Wilhelm wrote the six Concerti Armonici. The Concerti armonici, published anonymously in 1740, were printed in London in 1755 as compositions by the violinist and impresario Carlo Ricciotti (c.1681-1756). It has since been established that these were the work of Unico Wilhelm. There is no evidence that Ricciotti wrote any music. The concerti were dedicated to Wilhelm's friend, Count Willem Bentinck. In 1744 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to the French court, and in the autumn of 1744 and again in 1745 he was sent to the court of Clemens August, Elector of Cologne. In 1746 he went again to France, and finally in 1746-47 to Breda for further discussions with the French. Although clearly intelligent, Unico Wilhelm was not a natural diplomat. Unico Wilhelm was a commander of the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Order. He was made coadjutor in 1753, and introduced administrative and managerial innovations. In 1761 he was made Commander of the order. He died in The Hague on November 9, 1766. 

dimecres, 2 de novembre del 2022

VAN WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm (1692-1766) - Concertino a Quatro Violini

Georges Desmarées (1697-1776) - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer Obdam (1745)


Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) - Concertino (G-Dur) a Quatro Violini oblige
Performers: Ensemble Benedetto Marcello

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Dutch composer and statesman. He was born into one of the oldest and most influential families of the Dutch nobility and spent his childhood in his parents' house in The Hague and at Twickel Castle in Delden. He probably studied music with the organist, harpsichordist, composer and theorist Quirinus van Blankenburg in The Hague. From October 1707 until April 1709 he possibly accompanied his father on a mission to the Palatine Elector Johann Wilhelm in Düsseldorf. In September 1710 he matriculated in the University of Leiden and after completing his studies embarked on a grand tour which took him to England, Germany, France and probably Italy between 1714 and 1718. Between 1713 and 1715 he had contacts in The Hague with Duke Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg, to whom he dedicated three sonatas for recorder and continuo. He was a close friend of Count Willem Bentinck, who also had a keen interest in music, and with him organized concerts which took place alternately in their homes in The Hague. At these concerts, held for a small circle of nobles, Carlo Ricciotti, known as Bacciccia, played first violin. It was for these gatherings, between 1725 and 1740, that van Wassenaer wrote his Concerti armonici, published in 1740 in The Hague by Carlo Ricciotti without the composer's name and with a dedication to Willem Bentinck. The Concerti armonici were reprinted in England with Ricciotti named as the composer. A manuscript score at Twickel Castle contains annotations in van Wassenaer's hand. In a manuscript dating from the beginning of the 19th century (in US-Wc, formerly owned by the composer Franciszek Lessel) the concertos are attributed to Handel, whose name was later covered by a label with the name of Pergolesi in the same handwriting. An early 20th-century manuscript (in F-Pc), also with an attribution to Pergolesi, was probably copied from the Washington source. The Concerti armonici acquired considerable popularity under Pergolesi's name, and have proved no less popular under the name of the real composer. The three sonatas for recorder and continuo follow the Corelli model, while the Concerti armonici reveal a strong personal stamp. As ambassador extraordinary of the General States, van Wassenaer made diplomatic missions to France (in 1744 and 1746) and Cologne. Louis XV's court heard the music he wrote in France, and during his stay there he also composed a motet, Nunc dimittis. The French praised him as a ‘grand compositeur: il accompagne fort bien’ and considered his music ‘presque aussi bonne que celle de Corelli’.

dijous, 10 de novembre del 2016

VAN WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm (1692-1766) - Concerti armonici

William Hogarth - Marriage A-la-Mode - 4, The Toilette (c.1743)
Obra de William Hogarth (1697-1764), pintor anglès (1)


- Recordatori d'Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer -
En el dia de la commemoració del seu 250è aniversari de decés



Parlem de Pintura...

William Hogarth (London, 10 de novembre de 1697 - Chiswick, 26 d'octubre de 1764) va ser un pintor i gravador anglès. En acabar el seu aprenentatge com a argenter el 1718, es va dedicar al gravat, i va començar a ser conegut a partir del 1726 per les il·lustracions que va realitzar per a la novel·la Hudibras (1726) de Samuel Butler. Va començar a pintar al voltant del 1728, realitzant petites escenes de grup, com Vetllada musical (c.1730, Museu Fitzwilliam, Cambridge). Cap el 1735 va assolir el reconeixement com a pintor d'usos i costums anglesos per les seves dues sèries de pintures, Vida d'una cortesana (1731-1732, destruïda en un incendi el 1755) i Vida d'un llibertí (1735, Museu de Sir John Soane, Londres). Va realitzar una sèrie de gravats a partir d'aquestes pintures, gràcies als quals va aconseguir renom com a pintor satíric de gran brillantor i preocupació moralitzadora. Degut a la popularitat dels seus gravats, es van falsificar massivament fet que va motivar l'aprovació d'una pionera llei de drets d'autor el 1735, coneguda com la Llei Hogarth. Dues de les seves obres més ambicioses, encara que menys característiques, van ser els murals El bon samarità i La piscina de Betsaida, pintats a l'escala de l'hospital de Sant Bartomeu de Londres entre 1735 i 1736. Aquests murals van ser realitzats en un estil barroc molt ornamentat i amb temes mitològics o bíblics que estaven molt de moda en l'art francès i italià de l'època. El 1743 va acabar sis teles titulades Casament a la moda (National Gallery, Londres) i el 1745 es van publicar els gravats basats en aquesta sèrie. La sàtira brillant que fa de les noces per diners, els detalls mordaços de la vida de la classe alta i el mestratge en la complexitat de les escenes troben la seva màxima expressió en aquesta sèrie, considerada la seva obra mestra. D'aquesta època pertanyen també molts dels seus retrats, entre els quals destaquen el famós Garrick com a Ricard III (1745, col·lecció del Comte de Feversham) i La venedora de gambetes (1759, National Gallery, Londres). El 1753 va escriure L'anàlisi de la bellesa, un tractat sobre els seus principis estètics. Quatre anys després va ser nomenat pintor de Jordi II. Durant els últims cinc anys de la seva vida es va veure embolicat en aferrissades baralles polítiques amb el controvertit reformista polític britànic John Wilkes, a qui havia caricaturitzat en un gravat. Wilkes li va tornar el cop amb un atac a l'obra de Hogarth Segismunda (1759). El seu últim gravat, La trivialitat, pensat com un comiat, va ser editat el 1764. Va morir a Chiswick l'octubre de 1764. L'epitafi del seu monument el va escriure el seu amic actor David Garrick.

Font: En català: William Hogarth (1697-1764) En castellano: William Hogarth (1697-1764) In english: William Hogarth (1697-1764) - Altres: William Hogarth (1697-1764) 



Parlem de Música...

Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (Delden, 2 de novembre de 1692 - Den Haag, 9 de novembre de 1766) va ser un compositor holandès. Va néixer en el sí d'una de les famílies nobiliàries holandeses més influents. Es creu es va formar musicalment amb l'organista i compositor Quirinus van Blankenburg a La Haia. Entre l'octubre de 1707 i l'abril de 1709 va possiblement acompanyar el seu pare de visita a l'Elector Palatí Johann Wilhelm a Düsseldorf. Un any més tard es va matricular a la Universitat de Leiden i després de finalitzar els seus estudis va iniciar una gira, entre el 1714 i el 1718, per Europa i Anglaterra. A La Haia, va dedicar algunes de les seves obres al duc Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg i va ser bon amic del comte Willem Bentinck, amb qui va organitzar nombrosos concerts. Més tard, i novament establert a La Haia, va compondre, en una data incerta entre el 1725 i el 1740, els seus famosos VI concerti armonici amb dedicació expressa a Willem Bentinck. Uns concerts que Wilhelm van Wassenaer no va signar i que posteriorment es van atribuir erròniament a Carlo Ricciotti, i anys més tard a Händel i fins i tot a Pergolesi atribució que va motivar un sobtat interès per aquests concerts al llarg del segle XX. Wilhelm van Wassenaer va treballar també i durant molts anys com a diplomàtic davant dels Estats Generals i va fins i tot compondre alguna obra en honor a Lluís XV qui al seu torn el va descriure com a ‘grand compositeur: il accompagne fort bien’ i ‘presque aussi bonne que celle de Corelli’. Wilhelm van Wassenaer va viure els darrers anys a La Haia on va morir el novembre de 1766.

OBRA:

VI concerti armonici, 4 vn, va, vc, bc (The Hague, 1740); ed. F. Caffarelli (Rome, 1940) [attrib. G.B. Pergolesi]; ed. in HM, cl, lxxxii, clix, cxlix; cliv, clv (1951–9) [attrib. C. Ricciotti or Pergolesi][3] Sonate, rec, bc, *D-ROu; ed. A. Dunning and W. Brabants (Amsterdam, 1992)Gebed voor de predicatie, *NL-DEta [in an exemplar of G.F. Witvogel: De zangwysen van de CL Psalmen Davids (Amsterdam, 1731)]

Doubtful:
Menuet van de Hr. van Opdam, De tweede menuet, Hollantsche schouburgh en plugge dansen (Amsterdam, 1718);
Laudate Dominum, SSB, bc, DEta

Lost:
Nunc dimittis, B;
concs., fl, 3 vn etc.;
3 concs., 4, 5, 7 insts;
sonata, vc, bc;
sonata, 2 vn, bc

Font: En català: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) En castellano: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) In english: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) - Altres: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766)



Parlem en veu pròpia o en veu d'altri...

Unico Wilhelm, Graf van Wassenaer (1692-1766) was a Dutch nobleman, diplomat and amateur musician whose name is not to be found in "Grove"; nor did it grace the publication of his "Concerti Armonici" (1740) by Carlo Ricciotti, an Italian violinist who dedicated it to another Dutch nobleman and who was wrongly named as the composer when Walsh republished the works in 1755. A nineteenth-century manuscript copy by a Polish composer, Francois Lessel, attributed them to Pergolesi and this led to their inclusion in Pergolesi's "Opera Omnia from which Stravinsky imported several themes 'by Pergolesi' for his ballet "Pulcinella". Though this attribution has long been doubted it was only in 1979 that a manuscript was discovered, in an unknown hand but with an introduction in Wassenaer's own, which places his authorship of the "Concerti Armonici" beyond doubt. Such is their marvellous quality, not least their harmonic richness, that it is impossible to believe that they could have been his only works, and to wonder what happened to the rest maybe lurking amongst the spurious or doubtful ones by others. All are in four-movement "da chiesa" form and reflect Wassenaer's wide knowledge of the music of his time, with his taste for Italian composers well to the fore and even with the occasional hint of Bach!

GRAMOPHONE (source/font: aquí)

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Informació addicional... 

INTERPRETS: L'Orfeo Ensemble di Spoleto; Hermans Consort; Fabrizio Ammetto
AMAZON: WASSENAER, U.W. - Concertos Armonico Nos. 1- 6
CPDL: No disponible
SPOTIFY: WASSENAER, U.W. - Concertos Armonico Nos. 1- 6



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