Birth Anniversary: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer — October 30, 1692
Born at Delden in the Netherlands on 30 October 1692 into an aristocratic Dutch noble family. An influential diplomat and grandee of the Dutch Republic, he composed music in private as a cultured patrician dilettante, maintaining his creative anonymity throughout his lifetime.
Dates verified on Albert Dunning, Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: A master unmasked, Frits Knuf, 1980, ISBN 978-9060274149; Grove Music Online, entry "Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm, Graaf van" (https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.30006).
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