Carlo Gesualdo
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Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chrom
1609 donor portrait of Gesualdo from Il Perdono di Gesualdo
Castle of Gesualdo
Girolamo Frescobaldi
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Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance
Girolamo Frescobaldi in a 1619 engraving by Claude Mellan
Ferrara, Frescobaldi's birthplace, in 1600
Facsimile of Aria detta la Frescobalda (1627), the earliest known set of variations on an original theme
Commemorative plaque at the birthplace of Girolamo Frescobaldi