Gesualdo

[je-zoo-ahl-daw]

noun

1. Don Carlo Prince of Venosa c1560–1613, Italian composer.

Gesualdo

/ dʒezuˈaldo /

noun

1. Carlo (ˈkarlo), Prince of Venosa. ?1560–1613, Italian composer, esp of madrigals

Example Sentences

Subjects have included Carlo Gesualdo, the 16th century madrigalist who murdered his wife and her lover.

From Los Angeles Times

You just have to look at Gesualdo to see how far some composers could go even very early in history, but this was really quite a shock.

From New York Times

Are Gesualdo’s madrigals and Caravaggio’s masterpieces any less beautiful because the composer and the painter were murderers?

From Washington Post

Mira Nadon, who showed, again, that she can carve space like few others in the Stravinsky-Balanchine pairing of “Monumentum Pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra,” and Jovani Furlan, with his sleek elegance, are surely ready for more.

From New York Times

Sigismondo d’India was a young Italian composer at the explosively creative dawn of the 17th century, the time of Gesualdo, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Caccini.

From New York Times