Gesualdo

American  

[je-zoo-ahl-daw] / ˌdʒɛ zuˈɑl dɔ /

noun

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

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Gesualdo British  

/ dʒezuˈaldo /

noun

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

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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