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

At the heart of the Good Friday and Holy Saturday sections were four responsories from Carlo Gesualdo’s 1611 collection for Holy Week.

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The word-painting in these arresting madrigal-style pieces, heightened by Gesualdo’s characteristic dissonances, is starkly immediate.

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

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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.

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

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