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Giovanni Gabrieli
| 1554-1612Year of birth uncertain: 1554 or 1557 in Venice, died there in 1612.
Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the most influential musicians of the Venetian School in the 16th century. He was a church musician at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where Monteverdi became his successor after his death. One of Gabrieli's most important pupils was Heinrich Schütz, who learnt from Gabrieli during a three-year journey to Italy.
Gabrieli's style is characterised by Venetian polychoralism, basso continuo and affectation; he also wrote madrigals. His polychoral motets are written for up to 16 voices and 15 instruments and bear witness to the splendour of sound that must have prevailed in St. Mark's Basilica at the time. His Symphoniae Sacrae I and II and the many canzoni are well known. Gabrieli mainly wrote sacred choral music.
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