Gesualdo
Americannoun
noun
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Madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo stirred the passions with hair-raising chromatic surprises.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019
Here too we find the 12th century polyphonist Pérotin, Carlo Gesualdo and JS Bach, but also Luciano Berio and John Adams.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
The man has trouble with the GPS and radio, often pressing the wrong buttons, so he has taken to wearing bright orange, "so we don't lose him" says Mr. Gesualdo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2013
Between the Bach and Scarlatti scores Mr. Tritle led ravishing accounts of short a cappella motets by Victoria and Gesualdo.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2012
Absorbed as he was now in hearkening to the music-lesson among the white dog-roses, he started violently as a shadow fell across the threshold and a voice called to him, "Good-evening, Don Gesualdo."
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
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