Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557–1612) was an Italian composer and organist.… Read Full Bio ↴Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557–1612) 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.
He was probably born in Venice and probably studied with his uncle, the composer Andrea Gabrieli. He became the principal organist and composer at the church of San Marco in Venice, where his work made him one of the most noted composers in Europe. He used the church's unusual layout to create striking spatial effects. The vogue which began with his influential volume Sacrae symphoniae (1597) was such that composers from all over Europe, especially from Germany, went to Venice to study.
All of Gabrieli's secular vocal music was composed relatively early; later in his career he concentrated on sacred vocal and instrumental music, which exploited sonority for maximum effect. His best-known piece is arguably In Ecclesiis, which makes use of four separate groups of instrumental and singing performers, underpinned by the omnipresent organ and continuo.
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, of complications from a kidney stone.
He was probably born in Venice and probably studied with his uncle, the composer Andrea Gabrieli. He became the principal organist and composer at the church of San Marco in Venice, where his work made him one of the most noted composers in Europe. He used the church's unusual layout to create striking spatial effects. The vogue which began with his influential volume Sacrae symphoniae (1597) was such that composers from all over Europe, especially from Germany, went to Venice to study.
All of Gabrieli's secular vocal music was composed relatively early; later in his career he concentrated on sacred vocal and instrumental music, which exploited sonority for maximum effect. His best-known piece is arguably In Ecclesiis, which makes use of four separate groups of instrumental and singing performers, underpinned by the omnipresent organ and continuo.
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, of complications from a kidney stone.
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Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
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@steverodak2230
Giovanni Gabrieli's music is extremely inspiring!! It is reverent, majestic, large in sound, and an absolute pleasure
to listen to repeatedly! His music touches the heart.
@industrialengineer3269
Oh! My god. Incandescent gloria. Each time I like more and more music from Venetian School. Really, there is in it inspiring and sparkling sounds. Thank you!.
@MedievalRichard
Splendid.
MR
@TenorCantusFirmus
The score greatly helps grasping the true magnitude and complexity of the architecture, with those imitative games between choirs and groups of voices revealing just how much of an intellectual effort was put in those pieces: they aren't just flashy and spectacular "propaganda", they actually have much philosophical and intellectual substance in them.
@bartjebartmans
The Gabrieli's, Willaert et all were not hindered by stifling form of later time periods. The pinnacle and culmination of this kind of freedom of form is for me the Mary Vespers by Monteverdi. Incredible creativity and imagination of great beauty in line with the great masters before them Michelangelo, da Vinci etc. etc. Freedom of form and architecture rooted in solid masterful counterpoint and harmony and all inspired by that great miracle of the East meeting Western culture, St. Mark Cathedral.
@scottschwartz5106
The huge oceans of antiphonal sounds conversing, joining, separating, and coming together with 16 parts of glorious harmony. A real jewel of a work! To the Glory of God's Ascension ("Ascendit Deus")
@nicolamanca7465
Grazie
@yvesmaze6078
C'est de la polychoralité ou je n'y entends rien...