Artist
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo appears once in our Renaissance list, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Renaissance
- Year
- 1611
- Highest placing
- No. 5 in Renaissance
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Tenebrae Responsories
1611
Ranked No. 5 in Renaissance
Harmonically so strange that the twentieth century assumed it was a mistake. Written by a nobleman who had murdered his wife and her lover, which the music does very little to hide.