Carlo Gesualdo was an Italian composer active in the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was born into an aristocratic family in 1566 and murdered his wife and her lover in 1590 after discovering their affair. Gesualdo went to Ferrara in 1594, a center of musical activity, where he married again. He returned to his estate in 1597 and established a music-making center there. Gesualdo is most famous for his six books of highly chromatic and experimental madrigals published between 1594 and 1611. His life and music continued to inspire numerous works of fiction and film.
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