Itene mie querele - Pomponio Nenna

"Itene mie querele" is a madrigal by Pomponio Nenna (c. 1556–1608), a Neapolitan composer of the late Renaissance. Nenna is particularly noted for his intensely chromatic madrigal style, which closely paralleled that of his contemporary Carlo Gesualdo.

Pomponio Nenna's madrigals, including "Itene mie querele," are characterized by intense chromaticism that closely parallels the style of his contemporary Carlo Gesualdo. Both composers worked in southern Italy and pushed the boundaries of Renaissance harmonic language through extreme chromatic writing.

Pomponio Nenna lived from approximately 1556 to 1608 and was active as a composer in Naples. His intensely chromatic madrigal style, heard in works like "Itene mie querele," placed him among the most harmonically adventurous composers of the late Renaissance.

Pomponio Nenna (c. 1556–1608) and Carlo Gesualdo were contemporaries in southern Italy who developed strikingly similar chromatic madrigal styles. Works like "Itene mie querele" demonstrate that Nenna was pushing the boundaries of Renaissance harmony in ways that closely parallel Gesualdo's more famous experiments.