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Carlo Gesualdo
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Napoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)
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Carlo Gesualdo was an Italian composer and count associated with the Renaissance movement. Born in Venosa, Naples, and Venice, he began his professional work in 1585. He was a student of Stefano Felis and Pomponio Nenna and played the lute. Gesualdo was married to Leonora d'Este and was related to Charles Borromeo, Alfonso Gesualdo, and Pius IV. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Naples and spoke Italian.
His notable work includes *La musica del principe*. Gesualdo died in 1613 in Gesualdo, Naples, and was buried at Gesù Nuovo.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- La musica del principe
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Film & TV
Sound
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1566
- Active to
- 1613
Discography
- Leçons de Tenebres: Feria quinta1987
- Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday1987
- Madrigaux à 5 voix1988
- Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro I1990
- Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro II1990
- Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro III1990
- Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro IV1990
- Madrigali a cinque voci - Libro V1990
- Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro VI1990
- Sabbato Sancto1990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 63,585
- Total plays
- 660,056
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Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (?8 March 1560 – 8 September 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, lutenist, nobleman, and notorious murderer from the late Renaissance. He is famous for his intensely expressive madrigals, which use a chromatic language not heard again until the 19th century; and he is also famous for committing what are possibly the most famous murders in musical history, of his first wife and her lover. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Carlo Gesualdo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
1609 donor portrait of Gesualdo from Il Perdono di Gesualdo Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. He is also known for killing his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto.
Biography
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