March 8 - Carlo Gesualdo (The Musical Birthday Series - 2nd Annual Cycle)

Carlo Gesualdo (probably 8 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian composer who wrote some of the most intensely expressive and dissonant music of the Renaissance.
[For last year's post discussing C. P. E. Bach click here.]

Gesualdo 101

You may not know much of his life,

But you know that he murdered his wife.

With music so glorious,

It’s sad he’s notorious

For an ill-advised act with a knife.

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