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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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GIOVANNI

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

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