Diary of a degenerate: mapping the music and the madness of Carlo Gesualdo

C arlo Gesualdo wrote some of the most darkly sublime music of the late Renaissance. He also savagely murdered his wife and her lover in their bed. Now be honest: which would you like to discuss first? In my work, Death of Gesualdo, the composer’s fragile psyche forms a toxic alchemy with the publi...

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