Carlo Gesualdo, known as
Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8,
1566 – September 8, 1613),
Prince of Venosa and Count of
Conza, was an Italian music
composer, lutenist and
nobleman of the late
Renaissance. He is famous for
his intensely expressive
madrigals, which use a
chromatic language not heard
again until the 19th century,
and also for committing what
are amongst the most
notorious murders in musical
history.