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Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) 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 chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century.
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) [citation needed] periods, although revisited by some later European composers. [1]
founder of the Venetian School; active in Italy; influential as a teacher as well as a composer Bernardo Pisano: 1490 – 1548: Italian Possibly the earliest composer of madrigals, though not in name Sebastiano Festa: 1490/1495 – 1524: Italian Early composer of madrigals; possibly related to Costanzo Festa: Marco Antonio Cavazzoni: c. 1490 ...
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858–1919), composer of the tragic opera, Pagliacci; Giovanni Battista Leonetti (fl. 1604 – c. 1617) Leone Leoni (c. 1560–1627) Giuseppe Liberto (born 1943) Francesco Libetta (born 1968) Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (1696–1787), bishop, saint, composer of Tu scendi dalle stelle; Giuseppe Lillo (1814–1863)
Francesco Corteccia (July 27, 1502 – June 7, 1571) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the Renaissance. Not only was he one of the best known of the early composers of madrigals , and an important native Italian composer during a period of domination by composers from the Low Countries , but he was the most prominent musician in ...
Composers of madrigals; mostly Italian, and also some English and German. ... Pages in category "Madrigal composers" The following 60 pages are in this category, out ...
Luca Marenzio. Luca Marenzio (also Marentio; October 18, 1553 or 1554 – August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance.. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi.
Bernardo Pisano (also Pagoli) (October 12, 1490 – January 23, 1548) was an Italian composer, priest, singer, and scholar of the Renaissance.He was one of the first madrigalists, and the first composer anywhere to have a printed collection of secular music devoted entirely to himself.