[2] He moved to Rome, where in 1695 he published his Opus 1 under the name "Giovanni Ravenscroft, alias Rederi, Inglese".
[1] Around 1730, claiming them to be early works by Corelli,[4] the Amsterdam printer Michel-Charles Le Cène published nine of the sonatas from Ravenscroft's Opus 1 with a spurious Corelli opus number of 7.
[3] The error was pointed out by John Hawkins in 1776 in his General History of the Science and Practice of Music: In short, these Sonatas, in the title-page whereof the reader is told that they are believed to have been composed by Arcangelo Corelli before his other works, are no other than nine of twelve Sonatas for two violins and a bass, composed by a countryman of ours resident in Italy, and which were published with this title, Sonate a tre, doi Violini, [e] Violone, o Arcileuto col Basso per l'Organo.
Da Giovanni Ravenscroft, alias Rederi, Inglese, Opera Prima.
[5] [italics added]Ravenscroft's Opus 2 was published posthumously in London in 1708.