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GIOVANNI GABRIELI (1557-1612?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABRIELI (1557-1612?)  , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Venice in 1557, and was a See also:pupil of his See also:uncle See also:Andrea, a distinguished musician of the contrapuntal school and organist of St See also:Mark's . He succeeded Claudio Merulo as first organist of the Same See also:church in 1585, and died at Venice either in 1612 or 1613 . He was remarkable for his compositions for several choirs,. See also:writing frequently for 12 or 16 voices, and is important as an See also:early experimenter in See also:chromatic See also:harmony . It was probably for this See also:reason that he made a See also:special point of combining voices with See also:instruments, being thus one of the founders of choral and orchestral See also:composition . Among his pupils was Heinrich Schutz; and the church of St Mark, from the See also:time of the Gabrielis onwards down to that of See also:Lotti, became one of the most important musical See also:schools in See also:Europe . See also Winterfeld, Johann See also:Gabrieli and See also:seine Zeit (1834) .

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