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• Personalities
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• Composer
• Renaissance

(Kär’-lo Ja-zoo-al’-do) c. 1561–1613 Italian composer Gesualdo may be more famous than he deserves to be. Everyone loves a good story and Gesualdo, who brutally murdered his wife and her lover, provides one of the most colourful and scandalous in all music history. A nobleman of minor rank, he found, strangely, that his marital history did not ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Contemporary Classical

of the Symphony No. 5 (1988). Schnittke’s music lends itself to the satirical plot of Life with an Idiot (1991). Other operas include Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1990) and Gesualdo (1994), based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer and premiered under Rostropovich at the Vienna State Opera in 1995. Recommeded Recording: Homage to Schnittke (Concerto Grosso No. 1, ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Renaissance

‘fa la la’ madrigals of Morley and others. Recommended Recording: La pazzia senile: musica al tempo di Banchieri, Clemencic Consort (Accord) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Carlo Gesualdo | Renaissance | Classical ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Renaissance

, they have to do as the notes will.’ Martin Luther on Josquin des Prez Leading Exponents Johannes Ockeghem Jacob Obrecht Josquin des Prez Heinrich Isaac Adrian Willaert Carlo Gesualdo Orlande de Lassus Thomas Tallis William Byrd Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Gabrieli Renaissance Style In the Renaissance style, motet writing supports four unaccompanied voices, which at times ...

• Influences
• Classical
• Medieval Era

and Renaissance periods. A relatively early example is Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), who became interested in the fourteenth-century technique of hocket and in the harmonic experiments of the Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1561–1613). Hocket has since inspired many composers, both modernist (Harrison Birtwistle, b. 1934, for instance, in his Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, 1984) and minimalist ...