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Gesualdo

[ je-zoo-ahl-daw ]

noun

  1. Don Car·lo [dawn , kahr, -law], Prince of Ve·no·sa [ve-, naw, -zah], c1560–1613, Italian composer.


Gesualdo

/ dʒezuˈaldo /

noun

  1. GesualdoCarlo, Prince of Venosa?15601613MItalianMUSIC: composer Carlo (ˈkarlo), Prince of Venosa. ?1560–1613, Italian composer, esp of madrigals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

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.

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

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.

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.

She was astonishing in “Monumentum pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra,” two Stravinsky ballets created separately but shown as a pair with a pause in between.

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