Carlo Gesualdo
Sign in to saveNapoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)
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- Born
- 1561-00-00
- Died
- 1613-01-01
- Works
- 1
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- La musica del principe
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 1561
- Died
- 1 January 1613
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Naples
- Place of birth
- Venice
- Place of death
- Naples
- Spouse
- Leonora d'Este
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Noble title
- count
- Student of
- Pomponio Nenna
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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.
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