Gesualdo, Carlo 01/01/1560 - 01/01/1613

In 1590, the nobleman, Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, surprised his wife with her lover and had them both killed by his servants.
Later he married Eleonora d'Este, the niece of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, whose musical interests coincided with his own.



He composed devotional works and six books of madrigals which are considered to be of a very advanced chromatic complexity and sensitivity.



The sudden changes of tonality, the harmony and intensity of feeling in his music have found particular favour among some modern theorists.