Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa and count of Conza (c. 1566–1613), occupies a singular place in music history: a nobleman-composer whose life story—marked by violence,[…]

Carlo Gesualdo, the Prince of Venosa, was a man of stark contradictions. A composer of sublime and forward-looking music, he was also a figure of[…]

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was an Italian composer and nobleman born on March 8, 1566, in Venosa, a small town in the Kingdom of[…]