Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in other genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly on the latter part of the composer's life. This new edition has been extensively updated, and contains a new chapter covering the research of recent years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor Stravinsky is reprinted.
Country USA
Brand OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manufacturer Clarendon Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber frontispiece, 2 pp black and white plate
Color Blue
ReleaseDate 1991-12-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780198161974

Country	USA
Brand	OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manufacturer	Clarendon Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	frontispiece, 2 pp black and white plate
Color	Blue
ReleaseDate	1991-12-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780198161974