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Giovanni Gabrieli

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2015 - 1615: Gabrieli in Venice

2012 - Sacred Symphonies

2009 - The Glory of Music in Venice

2002 - Psaumes et Motets

2001 - Music for Brass, Volume 3

2000 - Sonata e Canzoni "per concertar con l'organo" (Concerto Pala
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1999 - Vêpres de la Vierge 1610

1999 - In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitatis

1997 - Music for Brass, Volume 1

1997 - The Canzonas and Sonatas From Sacrae Symphoniae 1597

1997 - Gabrieli Tedesco. Giovanni Gabrieli from German Sources (Mus

1996 - Music for San Rocco

1996 - The Glory of Venice
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1996 - Canzoni et sonate da sonar con ogni sorte de instrumenti (Co

1993 - Schütz and Venice

1993 - Psalmen Concerti Motetten

1991 - Venetian Church Music

1990 - Sacræ Symphoniæ (A Sei Voci & Les Saqueboutiers de Toulous

1989 - The glory of Venice: Gabrieli in San Marco

1987 - The Glory of Venice

1978 - Canzoni & Sonate

1960 - Music for Organ and Brass: Canzonas of Gabrieli and Frescoba
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0 - Famous Acapella Choruses

0 - The Virtuoso Brass of Three Great Orchestras Performing the

0 - The Glory Of Gabrielli

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Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.
Gabrieli was born in Venice. He was one of five children, and his father came from the region of Carnia and went to Venice shortly before Giovanni's birth. While not much is known about Giovanni's early life, he probably studied with his uncle, the composer Andrea Gabrieli; he may indeed have been brought up by him, as is implied by the dedication to his 1587 book of concerti, in which he described himself as "little less than a son" to his uncle. He also went to Munich to study with the renowned Orlando de Lassus at the court of Duke Albert V; most likely he stayed there until about 1579. Lassus was to be one of the principal influences on the development of his musical style. By 1584 he had returned to Venice, where he became principal organist at Saint Mark's Basilica in 1585, after Claudio Merulo left the post; following his uncle's death the following year he took the post of principal composer as well. Also after his uncle's death he began editing much of the older man's music, which would otherwise have been lost; Andrea evidently had had little inclination to publish his own music, but Giovanni's opinion of it was sufficiently high that he devoted much of his own time to compiling and editing it for publication. Gabrieli's career rose further when he took the additional post of organist at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, another post he retained for his entire life. San Rocco was the most prestigious and wealthy of all the Venetian confraternities, and second only to San Marco itself in splendor of its musical establishment. Some of the most renowned singers and instrumentalists in Italy performed there and a vivid description of its musical activity survives in the travel memoirs of the English writer Thomas Coryat. Much of his music was written specifically for that location, although he probably composed even more for San Marco. San Marco had a long tradition of musical excellence and Gabrieli's work there made him one of the most noted composers in Europe. The vogue that began with his influential volume Sacrae symphoniae (1597) was such that composers from all over Europe, especially from Germany, came to Venice to study. Evidently he also made his new pupils study the madrigals being written in Italy, so not only did they carry back the grand Venetian polychoral style to their home countries, but also the more intimate style of madrigals; Heinrich Schütz and others helped transport the transitional early Baroque music north to Germany, a trend that decisively affected subsequent music history. The productions of the German Baroque, culminating in the music of J.S. Bach, were founded on this strong tradition, which had its roots in Venice. Gabrieli was increasingly ill after about 1606, at which time church authorities began to appoint deputies to take over duties he could no longer perform. He died in 1612 in Venice, of complications from a kidney stone.