Question: Which Italian composer was from the earliest time period, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi or Giacomo Puccini?
Sentence (from "Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer"): His most important surviving compositions are the "Concerti Armonici", which until 1980 had been misattributed to the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) and to Carlo Ricciotti (1681-1756).
Relevant evidence: No