In The Doors of Perception, Huxley recalls a mescaline episode in which he experienced the voices in this man's music as a "bridge back to the human world," speculating about the "psychological disintegration" experienced by this Renaissance composer, calling him a "fantastic character out of a Webster melodrama."
At one of the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, Aldous Huxley got so carried away on the subject of this composer that he started fabricating titillating stories about him mid-lecture. Bernardo Bertolucci has continually shelved a film project about the life of this man that he first conceived in 1997. The structure of Bach's Musical Offering was taken as the model for a short story about performers of this composer's works, Julio Cortazar's "Clone." In The Doors of Perception, Huxley recalls a mescaline episode in which he experienced the voices in this man's music as a "bridge back to the human world," speculating about the "psychological disintegration" experienced by this Renaissance composer, calling him a "fantastic character out of a Webster melodrama." For 10 points, name this Prince of Venosa who composed some revolutionary madrigals after committing a double murder of his wife and her lover.
At one of the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, Aldous Huxley got so carried away on the subject of this composer that he started fabricating titillating stories about him mid-lecture.
Carlo Gesualdo