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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Sonata Pian'e Forte
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marcos teixeira
Masterpiece to several choirs in space. Dynamic games, solo parts in the singing, chords and instrumental parts foreshadowing orchestral parts!
Graham R
My Music History Professor has us studying this like religion; I'm not even complaining, this is brilliant.
Dougbert
I am complaining lol
Gabriel Galvez
Don't complain.
허민
지오반니 가브리엘리 - [피아노와 포르테 소나타]
처음으로 작곡가가 [1.정확한 악기편성]과 [2.강약 표시] 를 지정한 곡이다.
Gregory Cox
Magnificent! Heavenly....
Ren Ranger 2
That Forte hits you like a ton of bricks
Forte
Wow these are excellent! Thanks for the uploads.. would have never heard of Gabrieli unless you had posted these vids.
Edit: How is there a dislike on this music?!?
garrett scott gordon
played this in high school and on and of for the next 30 years. miss it. still in the robert king catalogue.
육자배기토리
Awesome.