March 8 - Carlo Gesualdo; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous entries for March 8th may be read here: C. P. E. Bach (2019), Alan Hovhaness (2021), Carlo Gesualdo, and Carlo Gesualdo (2022)

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahime!

Since Gesualdo’s harmonic commotion

Expresses the poet’s emotion,

As a singer, be careful,

Perhaps even prayerful,

Or you’ll drown in his musical ocean!

 

 

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was an influential German composer composer, and a son of J. S. Bach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the Fons et Origo

Of all of the Bachs,

  Perhaps C.P.E.

Is most widely known,

  And that’s because he

Is play the most often,

  Excepting, of course,

His illustrious dad,

  The original source.

 

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