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Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian music composer, lutenist and nobleman of the ... - GESUALDO, Don Carlo
c. 1560–1613), sometimes known as the Prince of Venosa, Italian lutenist and composer, known for the daring chromatic harmonies of his madrigals. - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza (1561 - 1613)
Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza (1561 † - 1613): This great if disequilibrated composer (Stravinsky) Entries for Gesualdo in most musical dictionaries are ...
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Don Carlo Gesualdo
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Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560?-1613), sometimes known as the Prince of Venosa, Italian lutenist and composer, known for the daring chromatic harmonies of his madrigals. After ordering the murder of his wife, her lover, and their infant in 1590, he traveled from his native Naples to northern Italy. In 1594 he married the Ferrarese noblewoman Eleonora d'Este and settled at the court of Ferrara. When the death of Duke Alfonso II d'Este (1533-97) marked the end of Ferrara as a cultural center, Gesualdo returned to Naples. Of his six volumes of five-part madrigals, the last two especially reveal a dramatic, highly innovative harmonic style aimed at emotional expression.
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