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Unico Willem van Wassenaer

(November 2, 1692, Delden - November 9, 1766, The Hague)

Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer was a Dutch diplomat and composer. Its composition is the most famous concerts, Harmonic, falsely attributed for decades to the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Born in the castle of Twickel, Overijssel then baptized in Delden, the age of fifteen he accompanied his father, Ambassador of the Netherlands, the court of Düsseldorf, and then moved to The Hague in 1709 to study law at the University of Leiden. the death of his father in 1717 had inherited the assets of the castle and started the Grand Tour of Europe: the Count van Wassenaer visited Paris, and possibly Rome, Florence, Venice, Prague and Vienna. In 1723 he married Lucia van Dodoneo Gosling, a young aristocrat of Friesland, which gave him three children. He became a member of the Navy Department and the British East India Company.

was ambassador in Paris in 1744 and Cologne in 1746. Between 1725 and 1740 he composed concertos harmony, but a member of the nobility, or perhaps, considering them of little account, he chose not to publish under his own name. The concerts were then published in 1740 by violinist Carlo Ricciotti, which, were initially allocated. In the nineteenth century Polish composer and musicologist François Lessel, argued that the real author would be Pergolesi. Because of the typically Italian style of composition, structure with the Roman division into four movements, rather than the three movements of the Venetian style, were also cited as potential perpetrators or Mossi Giovanni Pietro Locatelli. The dispute was resolved only in 1979, when the manuscript was discovered in the six concerts in Holland Twickel Castle, the birthplace of Count van Wassenaer. Although the spelling is not that of the count, there is a handwritten introduction which reads: "Partition de mes concerts gravez par le Sr. Ricciotti (Sheet of my concerts, transcribed for the Sig.Ricciotti). Thanks in part to research conducted by musicologist Albert Dunning (A Master Unmasked, Utrecht, 1980) there are no more doubts about the authorship of this work.

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