Carlo Gesualdo

Italian composer, lutenist and aristocrat

1566 CE to 1613 CE

Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, is an Italian music composer, lutenist and nobleman of the late Renaissance.

He is famous for his intensely expressive madrigals, which use a chromatic language not heard again until the 19th century, and also for committing what are amongst the most notorious murders in musical history.

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