Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer
Unico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, (2 November 1692, Delden, Overijssel – 9 November 1766, The Hague) was a Dutch diplomat and composer.
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).
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