Carlo Gesualdo
Napoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Renaissance composer who wrote madrigals centuries ahead of their harmonic time. Also killed his wife and her lover in 1590—a crime that shadowed his reputation as much as his radical chromatic language defined early modern music.
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Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. He is also known for killing his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto.
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