Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

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Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and because the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions don’t seem to be unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found a perfect outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Watkins’s extended study of Gesualdo’s life and works used to be in the beginning published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo’s remarkable madrigals and of the few works in other genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly at the latter a part of the composer’s life. This new edition has been extensively up to date, and incorporates a new chapter covering the research of up to date years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor Stravinsky is reprinted.

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