Below is the Miserere from Gesualdo's Tennebrae Responses. It is less famous than the Allegri version although equally beautiful.
Gesualdo killed his wife and her lover after discovering them in adultery. Because he was a nobleman he was exempt from legal punishment for doing so. There is no evidence one way or another as to whether he felt any guilt about this. All we know is that he wrote this:
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