GESUALDO, CARLO

kärˈlō jāzooälˈdō, Prince of Venosa, c.1560–1613, Italian composer. Gesualdo's later madrigals are striking for their time in their harmonic and dramatic boldness. They are contained in the last two (1611) of his six published books of madrigals. Gesualdo was a flamboyant personality: he had many love affairs, and his first wife and her lover were murdered at his order.

See studies by C. Gray and P. Heseltine (1926, repr. 1971) and G. Watkins (1973).

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books on: Gesualdo Carlo  - 150 results

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Companion to Baroque Music
Book by Julie Anne Sadie; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Music--17th Century--History And Criticism, Music--18th Century--History And Criticism
...chitarrone player, composer and poet of noble birth who in the 1590s served Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany and Carlo Gesualdo, before taking up a permanent post with the Duke of Mantua in 1598. In 1600 he sang in the first performances...
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Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Christopher Baker; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Authoritarianism--Europe--History--17th Century, Authoritarianism--Europe--History--18th Century, Enlightenment--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries
...de Fermat born Thomas Morley, Triumphs of Oriana Carlo Gesualdo, Madrigals Michelangelo Merisi da Carravagio, Conversion...commissions included, among others, the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-1644) in Rome, with its strikingly...
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Mannerism in Italian Music and Culture, 1530-1630
Book by Maria Rika Maniates; University of North Carolina Press, 1979
Subjects: Italy--Intellectual Life--1268-1559, Italy--Intellectual Life--1559-1789, Mannerism (Music)--Italy, Music--Italy--16th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Italy--17th Century--History And Criticism, Style, Musical
...stelle (1588) 346 XX-6 C. Gesualdo, Moro e mentre sospiro (1596...1603) 375 XXI-3 C. Gesualdo, Tu muccidi o crudele (1611) 384 XXI-4a, 4b, and 4c C. Gesualdo, Moro lasso (1611) 386-90...
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Composers of Yesterday: A Biographical and Critical Guide to the Most Important Composers of the Past
Book by David Ewen; H. W. Wilson, 1937
Subjects: Musicians--Dictionaries
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Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Jo Eldridge Carney; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Reformation--Biography--Dictionaries, Renaissance--Biography--Dictionaries
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journal articles on: Gesualdo Carlo  - 6 results

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Locating the Anomalous: Gesualdo, Blake, and Seurat
Journal article by Brent E. Whitted; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Aesthetics--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Art criticism--Analysis, Blake, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gesualdo, Carlo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting--Themes, motives, Seurat, Georges--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Italian "Mannerist" madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1560-1613), the English "Post-Enlightenment...cultural milieu that characterized Carlo Gesualdos earlier active years in late Renaissance...Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1971. Gesualdo, Carlo. Madrigals for Five Voices - Book...
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Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal
Journal article by Melanie L. Marshall; Women & Music, Vol. 11, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (Book)--Book reviews
...Cipriano de Rore, Giaches de Wert, Luca Marenzio, Carlo Gesualdo, and Claudio Monteverdi--roughly one composer and...1991), the letters are excerpted in Anthony Newcomb, "Carlo Gesualdo and a Musical Correspondence of 1594," Musical Quarterly...
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Gustaw Herling. the Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories
Journal article by Michael Pinker; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 24, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories (Book)--Book reviews
...acquaintances, strangers, even historical figures like Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa. This patient, selfless narrator...Madrigal of Mourning" becomes so enchanted by her work on Gesualdo, the Renaissance composer of sublime vocal harmonies...
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The Study of Literary Relations: France and Italy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Olga Ragusa; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...Cameroni ( Il Sole , February 1881 ), Carlo Del Balzo ( Rivista Nuova di Scienze e...the works of Zola in Italy, see Gian Carlo Menichelli, Bibliographie de Zola en...Voltaire Le Siecle de Louis XIV . Carlo Denina Discorso sopra le vicende della...
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Madrigali E Madrigaletti
Journal article by Ruth I. Deford; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Madrigali e madrigaletti (Book)--Book reviews
...in the style of the time, but less adventurous than the avant-garde madrigals by composers such as Luca Marenzio, Carlo Gesualdo, and Claudio Monteverdi. Their texts are of the simple, light-hearted variety that was fashionable in the 1580s and...
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magazine articles on: Gesualdo Carlo  - 6 results

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Joe Coleman: Tilton Gallery
Magazine article by Martha Schwendener; Artforum International, Vol. 45, December 2006
Subjects: Coleman, Joe--Criticism and interpretation, Coleman, Joe--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Exhibitions
...Tenebrae for Gesualdo, 2004, is a single panel, divided up into altarpiece-like sections, that tells the tale of Carlo Gesualdo, a sixteenth-century Italian composer and aristocrat who murdered his wife and her lover, and possibly also his son...
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Petipaw
Magazine article by Laura Jacobs; New Criterion, Vol. 20, March 2002
Subjects: Balanchine, George--Conduct of life, Choreographers--Conduct of life, Dancers--Conduct of life, Dancing--Appreciation, Theater--Appreciation
...repertory. Even together they can seem slight, nothing really. And yet, everything. Monumentum is set to madrigals by Don Carlo Gesualdo, which Stravinsky recomposed for orchestra; Movements, also by Stravinsky, uses serial technique. So both scores are...
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A Sampler from the World Stage
Magazine article by Benjamin W. Sampson; American Theatre, Vol. 21, February 2004
Subjects: Theater--Fairs and festivals, Web sites, Web sites (World Wide Web)
...composer Luca Francesconis latest work, Gesualdo Considered as a Murderer, is based on the music and bizarre life of Don Carlo Gesualdo, who skewered his adulterous wife and her lover, then subsequently had himself flogged every day after. (JUN 4-27...
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What Happened to Aldous Huxley?
Magazine article by John Derbyshire; New Criterion, Vol. 21, February 2003
Subjects: Huxley, Aldous--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Metaphysics
...inexplicably fascinating piece on the Neapolitan composer Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613), whose first marriage had an abrupt ending when the lady took a lover. Gesualdo broke into his wifes room, slew her and her lover, then...
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Early Music's Charmed Circle
Magazine article by Peter Catalano; World and I, Vol. 14, September 1999
Subjects: Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition--1997 AD, Early music movement--Analysis
...richer tone than is usual for Early Music types, Il Complesso was stunning in Monteverdi and the ear-bending eccentric Carlo Gesualdo. Boston 1997 featured even more unusual works, performed with fiery flare. Skip Sempes aptly named trio Capriccio...
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newspaper articles on: Gesualdo Carlo  - 1 result

 
 
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Programming the Perfect Advent Choral Concert: Musikanten's Director Focuses on Christianity's 'Spotless Rose'
Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, December 22, 1996
...are divided about evenly between Luca Marenzio and Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa, who also has the dubious distinction of...lover, Laura, imbues not only these two pieces but also Gesualdos tortured yearnings for blissful love or, failing this...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gesualdo Carlo  - 3 results

 
 
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Gesualdo, Carlo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
GESUALDO, CARLO kar lo jazooal do, Prince of Venosa, c.1560 1613, Italian composer. Gesualdos later madrigals are striking for their...his six published books of madrigals. Gesualdo was a flamboyant personality: he had many...
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Madrigal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...style, the expression closely allied to the text. In the last part of the 16th cent. composers such as Luca Marenzio, Carlo Gesualdo (c.1560 1613), and Monteverdi intensified the expression of the text by the use of chromaticism, word painting, and...
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Renaissance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...madrigal composers were influenced by the work of Italians. The main Italian madrigal composers were Luca Marenzio , Carlo Gesualdo , and Claudio Monteverdi . Monteverdi was the most accomplished artist of the three; in addition to composing madrigals...


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