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Gesualdo, Don Carlo, Prince of Venosa
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pronunciation:
[jezualdoh]
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| (c.1560–1613)
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| Composer and lutenist, born in Naples, SW Italy. He achieved notoriety for ordering the murder of his unfaithful wife and her lover in 1590. He wrote many sacred vocal works and published six books of madrigals, remarkable for bold homophonic progressions and telling use of dissonance. |
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