Weird Haunting Composer

     Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was a very odd composer and person. http://adf.ly/1XME0 You can read on his background there but I will summarize. He was a renaissance composer known for his odd leaps in tonality, with that oddness arguably not being matched until well into the 19th century. His music is very emotional and haunting at times, and that could be said to reflect his life. When he caught his wife with her lover, he killed them both, with the man dressed in women's clothing and his wife stabbed many times. He then left them outside for the public to see and monks had sex with her dead body. She was still pretty young and supposedly beautiful so I guess stab wounds and lifelessness wouldn't be enough to keep them off. After the murders he went through a period of manic depression. He actually remarried, and eventually began to beat her and had servants beat him as well. If you think that is weird, you should hear his music. http://adf.ly/1XMVA  This is a great example of his beautiful and haunting music.