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	The Carlo Gesualdo Biography Page on Classic Cat
		Carlo Gesualdo (?March 8, ?1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, lutenist, nobleman, and notorious murderer of the late Renaissance.
		Gesualdo was particularly fond of chromatic third relations, for instance juxtaposing the chords of A major and F major, or even A minor and D-flat major (as he does at the beginning of "Moro, lasso").
		Gesualdo had little influence at the time, although a few composers such as Sigismondo d'India and Antonio Cifra wrote a handful of works in imitation of his madrigalian style; it was only in the 20th century that he was rediscovered.
	www.classiccat.net /gesualdo_c/biography.htm (1584 words)

	Carlo Gesualdo - history -
		The cathedral of the 15th century, the abbey of the Trinità, constructed between the 11th and the 12th century are visible to us, and also the castle, of 15th century, and the rests of roman origins.
		Carlo will become heir of title and patrimony because of the premature death of his brother Luigi.
		Without any other male heirs, the lineage of the Gesualdo family was extinguished with the death of Carlo, the 8th of September, 1613, at the apex of its power and the splendour.
	carlogesualdo.altervista.org /pagine/storia_en.htm (362 words)

	Archive: Carlo Gesualdo, the opera
		Don Carlo Gesualdo was rich, artistic, and - as the second son of a noble Neapolitan family - free to indulge his passion for music.
		Gesualdo wrote this work for his solitary delectation in his private chapel: this was the solace in his remorseful last days.
		Gesualdo was the last representative of the old era, but he was trapped as though in a cage.
	www.kingssingers.com /concerts/archive_gesualdoopera.htm (1269 words)

	gesualdo.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gesualdo, or to give him his full title, Duke Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was probably born in 1564 (though some scholars set the date at 1560 or 61), the second son of Fabrizio II Gesualdo and Girolama Borromeo.
		Gesualdo was also part of the avant-garde, though unlike the aforementioned composers he had not been cathedral trained in composition, nor was he dependant on employment as a maestro of a cathedral or court.
		Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigaux Livre V (Arion ARN 68388, 1996) by Métamorphoses/Maurice Bourbon, and Gesualdo Da Venosa - Libro VI Delli Madigali 1613 (Symphonia SY 94133, 1995) by Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis.
	www.btinternet.com /~rubberneck/gesualdo.html (2502 words)

	Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza (1561 - 1613) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gesualdo’s castle was the residence then of some hens, a heifer, and a browsing goat, as well as a human population numbering, in that still Pill-less, anti-Malthusian decade, a great many bambini.
		Gesualdo’s passion for music began at a very young age, as with Mozart, and as a child he had no interests outside his lute and harpsichord and singing, apart from an interest in the other young boys that he sang with.
		Don Carlo Gesualdo may have become a great musician but he was not a good husband and conducted several affairs (dallying with both sexes) and there were rumours that he was cruel to his new wife, who by now had born him a son, Alfonsino.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /gesualdo.htm (1927 words)

	Gesualdo, Carlo - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		GESUALDO, CARLO [Gesualdo, Carlo], Prince of Venosa, c.1560-1613, Italian composer.
		Gesualdo's later madrigals are striking for their time in their harmonic and dramatic boldness.
		Gesualdo was a flamboyant personality: he had many love affairs, and his first wife and her lover were murdered at his order.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gesualdo.html (260 words)

	Gesualdo
		Gesualdo, or to give him his full title, Duke Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was probably born in 1566 (though some scholars set the date as early as1560 or 61), the second son of Fabrizio II Gesualdo and Girolama Borromeo.
		The Gesualdos were feudal landowners with a modest castle in the Italian village of Gesualdo (60 miles from Naples), a larger one in the ancient town of Venosa, plus a palace in Naples.
		While details of Carlo's early life are scarce, it is known that he published a competent motet in 1585.
	www.kingssingers.com /music/comp_gesualdo.htm (270 words)

	Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		arlo Gesualdo di Venosa (1566-1613), prince and musician, is one of the most tragically colourful lives of the late Rennaissance.
		Gesualdo's musical language may be a shock to the uninitiated.
		Gesualdo's purpose is always to enhance the text which he does in a manner unsurpassed and wholly unique.
	members.iinet.net.au /~martins/program_notes/carlo_gesualdo.html (144 words)

	Don Carlo Gesualdo Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		In 1594 Gesualdo married Eleonora d'Este, the daughter of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, at whose court lived Torquato Tasso, Nicolò Vicentino, and Luzzasco Luzzaschi.
		On several occasions Gesualdo set to music the lyrics of his friend Tasso, whose morbid nature was so similar to his own; and hearing the chromatic experiments of Luzzaschi and Vicentino may well have reinforced the direction of his own musical development.
		Gesualdo's extant works in the collected edition issued by Wilhelm Weismann and Glenn E. Watkins (Hamburg, 1957--) comprise 19 sacrae cantiones for five voices and 20 for six and seven voices, 27 Holy Week responsories for six voices, and 125 madrigals for five voices.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/don-carlo-gesualdo (549 words)

	GOLDBERG: The early music and baroque music portal. - GESUALDO.
		Gesualdo’s use of dissonance is no more illegitimate than that of the composers Artusi cited as good examples.
		The King's Singers admit that is about time for Gesualdo to be recognized as one of the great composers in the history of music, and to be separated from his image of amateur composer.
		Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, nephew of the cardinals San Carlo, Alfonso (Archbishop of Naples) and Federico Borromeo, the grandson of Pope
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/busquedas/?words=GESUALDO (510 words)

	BMOP :: Carlo Gesualdo
		Gesualdo's output consists of six volumes of five-part madrigals, published from 1594; two books of motets and one of responsories; and a few keyboard works.
		Wayward harmonies in his earlier madrigals develop, in his later ones, into wild and passionate juxtapositions of fast and slow motion, and of total and extremely chromatic harmony.
		These violent contrasts seem to reflect Gesualdo's neurotic personality; from a stylistic viewpoint his harmonic experiments are more the ultimate outcome of sixteenth century harmonic vocabulary than prophetic of the music that was to come; it was only in the eccentricity of his melodic lines that some monodists followed.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=248 (194 words)

	Boosey & Hawkes Teaching Music to everyone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carlo was commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the 1997 Huntington Festival and is scored for 15 solo strings, sampler and pre-recorded tape.
		Historians to the present day still seem undecided as to the true merits of Gesualdo the composer, unable to separate the characteristics of his compositions, with their harmonic extremities and surprises and their textural complexities, from the infamy of Gesualdo the murderer.
		Combine this with the fact that I´ve always found Gesualdo´s vocal works in any case to be one of music´s great and most fascinating listening experiences and you have the premise of my piece.
	www.boosey.com /pages/teaching/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=3264 (598 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gesualdo,
		Gesualdo at Amazon.com Vast selection of new and used music.
		Gesualdo, Carlo GESUALDO, CARLO [Gesualdo, Carlo], Prince of Venosa, c.1560-1613, Italian composer.
		This article is concerned mainly with general developments and their impact in the fields of science, rhetoric, literature, and music.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gesualdo, (457 words)

	Amazon.com: Gesualdo: Tenebrae: Music: Carlo Gesualdo,The Hilliard Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carlo Gesualdo's name will always conjure up a special image: When he discovered that his wife had been unfaithful, he had her and her lover murdered and left on his palace steps, impaled on the same sword.
		Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560 - 1613) was an aristocrat rich, artistic, and - as the second son of a noble Neapolitan family - free to indulge his passion for music.
		Although the music of Gesualdo may not be to the taste of someone tentatively delving into the Renaissance for the first time, it may deepen the appreciation of this period more than the myriads of recordings of instrumental dances and part-songs ever will.
	www.amazon.com /Tenebrae-Carlo-Gesualdo/dp/B000025YNV (2144 words)

	Carlo Gesualdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The murders were widely publicized, including in verse by poets such as Tasso and an entire flock of Neapolitan poets, eager to capitalize on the sensation; the salacious details of the murders were broadcast in print; but nothing was done to apprehend the Prince of Venosa.
		In a letter of June 25, 1594, Gesualdo indicated he was writing music for the three women in the concerto delle donne; however, it is probable that some of the music he wrote, for example that in the newly developing monodic and/or concertato styles, has not survived.
		There is evidence that Gesualdo had these works in score form, in order to better display his contrapuntal inventions to other musicians, and also that Gesualdo intended his works to be sung by equal voices, as opposed to the concerted madrigal style popular in the period, which involved doubling and replacing voices with instruments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo (1804 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Heart of Darkness, The Venomous Prince
		Gesualdo was remarkable for both the sensual character of his secular works and the edifying qualities of his sacred material, as well as being over 200 years ahead of his time in certain aspects of theoretical practice.
		The Gesualdos were feudal landholders with castles in Gesualdo and Venosa, as well as a palace in Naples.
		In 1584, Carlo’s elder brother died without an heir; since Carlo was the remaining male of his family, the responsibility of continuing the family line fell upon his shoulders.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /nonfiction/articles/2002_01_hd_prince.html (570 words)

	Gesualdo, Carlo
		Don Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa, may have been born in Venice on March 8, 1566.
		Gesualdo's later music is characterized by fragmented poetry, unconventional cadences, exaggerated rhetorical devices, ambiguous successions of chords, and a free mixture of counterpoint and homophony.
		He is considered to be one of the finest and certainly one of the most innovative composers of Italian madrigals in the late Renaissance.
	www.stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/gesualdo1613.html (462 words)

	Gesualdo, Carlo (c. 1561 - 1613) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, murderer in 1590 of his guilty wife and her lover, later took a wife from the d'Este family, rulers of Ferrara, whose musical interests coincided with his own.
		In style his music is unexpected in its sudden changes of tonality, its harmony and its intensity of feeling, qualities that have found particular favour among some modern theorists.
		Music Gesualdo's numerous sacred compositions include works intended for the liturgy of Good Friday and Holy Saturday, as well as Marian compositions such as Ave, dulcissima Maria and Ave, regina caelorum.
	www.naxos.com /composer/gesualdo.htm (189 words)

	Amazon.ca: Madrigals/Motets Ren. Naples: Music: Carlo Gesualdo,Pomponio Nenna,Luzzasco Luzzaschi,Simon Birchall,Gillian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the positive side, I must admit that ""Gesualdo consort"" are couragous, and that they might belong to the musicological period of this musical period (they started in 1978!).
		Gesualdo has a catholic and mediteranean content, and apparently one should not buy pirate-editions :-)in this case.
		This recording is most valuable, not only for helping to put Gesualdo in his proper context, but also for the harmonically assured, flexible and verbally sensitive singing of this group.
	www.amazon.ca /Madrigals-Motets-Naples-Simon-Birchall/dp/B000001HQB (833 words)

	The New York Review of Books: From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra
		Equally unjustifiable is Taruskin's hasty dismissal as "negligible" the chromatic experimentation on instruments contemporary with the similar experiments in the madrigals of Marenzio and Carlo Gesualdo.
		On the outrageous harmonic effects of Gesualdo, Taruskin astutely remarks (it is one of his most brilliant points) that they are not the effects of a composer ahead of his time, as Stravin-sky and others have maintained, but are perfectly familiar ingredients of sixteenth-century style.
		This is not an anachronistic view: the madrigals of Monteverdi, a composer a generation younger than Marenzio, were attacked by his contemporaries as the accidental discoveries of a man who had just been strumming randomly at a keyboard.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18725 (5498 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		In 1590, the nobleman, Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, surprised his wife with her lover and had them both killed by his servants.
		The sudden changes of tonality, the harmony and intensity of feeling in his music have found particular favour among some modern theorists.
		Gesualdo’s six books of madrigals include some remarkable and striking compositions, such as the five-voice Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, and the earlier Ahi, disperata vita.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/gesualdo.html (187 words)

	Carlo Gesualdo - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tres Sacrae Cantiones By Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa.
		Gesualdo's music, highly progressive in terms of harmony, imagine Wagner or Hugo Wolf in Madrigal form, has often been connected to the composer's dark side.
		The cadence in the madrigals of Gesualdo (Catholic University of America.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/gesualdo (1166 words)

	Movie Info for Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices - The Composer Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) on MSN Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices - The Composer Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613)
		The troubled life of sixteenth century composer Don Carol Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa is explored by filmmaker Werner Herzog in this film shot on location in Italy and featuring interviews with Gesualdo Consort director Gerald Pace, Il Complesso Barocco musical director Alan Curtis.
		From his sexual deviance and dangerous obsessions to a shocking act of murder, Gesualdo's personal demons and remarkable influence are explored as never before thanks to careful research and detailed interviews with those who have dedicated their lives to studying his remarkable legacy.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=69773 (131 words)

	Gesualdo (Av) - Carlo Gesualdo
		Inaugurato il Monumento a San Pio presso il Convento dei Padri Cappuccini in Gesualdo, dove l'allora Padre Pio ha dimorato per alcuni mesi nell'anno 1909 come studente di teologia morale.
		Igor Stravinskij in visita a Gesualdo per visitare l'ultima dimorara di Carlo.
		Clicca qui per vedere la foto di Stravinskij nel cortile del castello che fu di C. Gesualdo.
	carlogesualdo.altervista.org (448 words)

	classical music - andante - murder and madrigals: the lurid life of carlo gesualdo continues to fascinate
		classical music - andante - murder and madrigals: the lurid life of carlo gesualdo continues to fascinate
		Murder And Madrigals: The Lurid Life of Carlo Gesualdo Continues to Fascinate
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