Don Carlo Gesualdo
Renaissance music, Composer
1566 – 1613
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Who was Don Carlo Gesualdo?
Carlo Gesualdo, also known as Gesualdo da Venosa or Gesualdo di Venosa, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer and murderer.
As a composer of the late Renaissance, he is remembered for writing intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century.
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