Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1560-1613), is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the Mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of these tendencies.
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Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1560-1613), is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the Mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of these tendencies.
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Add this copy of Gesualdo: the Man and His Music to cart. $26.25, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by UNC Enduring Editions /University of North Carolina Press.
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Book. Octavo; VG-/paperback; blue/white spine with brown text; reprinted from 1973 edition; exterior to covers show mild shelf wear; slight creases to front joint; intact binding otherwise; text block exterior edges have very slight wear; frontispiece; inked date to lower edge to title page; interior clean; illustrated; pp 334. 1365285. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of Gesualdo: the Man and His Music to cart. $50.00, good condition, Sold by Schindler-Graf Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Westlake, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by University of North Carolina Press.
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Good. Hardcover; Second printing, 1976. xxiv, 334 pages. Our copy is ex-museum library bound in blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Binding is square and sturdy. Lacks a dust jacket. Has a few library markings; bookplate inside front cover is stamped "Withdrawn." It appears this book never circulated-probably a reference copy.
