Word: madrigalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deft Exercise. Later in the week Stravinsky touched off some mild demonstrations, of his own. Occasion: the world premiere in Venice of his seven-minute Monumentum Pro Gesualdo di Venosa Ad CD Annum, inspired by the music of late-16th-century Madrigalist Don Carlo Gesualdo, who has long fascinated Stravinsky (Gesualdo had his wife and her lover murdered and is said to have suffocated one of his own children before relieving his tensions in song). In 1956 Stravinsky set himself the task of "recomposing" three Gesualdo madrigals for orchestra. The results added up to little more than deft exercises...
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